Traditionally, many of the brokerage firms like TD Ameritrade have not been the biggest proponents of annuities.  It wasn’t as if they bashed them and said nasty things about annuities.  Just simply that it wasn’t their specialty or in their “wheelhouse”.  However, after a recent survey that TD Ameritrade did on their clients revealed that [...]

These days, the road to retirement can be a bumpy ride. And soon it’s going to look like rush hour as Baby Boomers turn 65 at the rate of 10,000 people per day, every day, for the next 17 years. Yet an astonishing 17% of transition Boomers — those 55 to 65 years old — [...]