The last two converts to income annuities?

But when we begin to look at markets like England and Japan that have fallen from world dominance over the last 200 years, the picture of 20- and 30-year infallibility is not as clear. One need only to look at England after World War I, when its colonial powers began to wane. This is where Evensky and Murray can meet up at the O.K. Corral together. There’s an old bumper sticker that says, “You can’t tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks,” but one can tell just by asking John Q. Public that diversification beyond U.S. equities is paramount if the nation is in peril — and more than 70 percent of the folks out there think we are heading in the wrong direction as a nation, according to Fox News. 

Enter indexed annuities as a diversification resource against political risk. Japanese investors are jubilant once again because of Abenomics, and are looking at Nikkei 20,000 again or recouping nearly 50 percent of their losses 26 years later. So maybe that’s why indexed annuities are hitting record sales volumes as well: political diversification and the uncertainty of geopolitical impacts upon the republic for which we stand. These are some reasons why it is good to see the indexed brain trusts developing uncapped indexed strategies and linking to indices other than the U.S. 

Nick, a consummate bond-basher despite the greatest bull market in U.S. history, and Harold will also recognize that with interest rates that have been higher 95 percent of the time, savers and investors are clamoring for an alternative that protects principal, provides a lifetime of income and defers taxes. In Japan, they call a man that invests your money a “broker” for a reason, so it is no mystery as to why the idea of a private pension plan or a lifetime retirement income solution is catching on as we race toward more global instability with each passing day. 

They may not make it to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, but the group Timbuk 3’s hit “The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades” closed out the 1980s with a bang. Now that the shades of a six-year bull market have come off, maybe Evensky and Murray are reading the tea leaves and taking a second look at indexed annuities. As Yogi said so wisely, “If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.” The chances of copying or imitating this enormous bull market for stocks and bonds for another 30 years are slim to none, unless the U.S solves a lot of its problems.