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Annuity Versus IRA

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 14:00

My spouse recently left her employer and has about $200,000 in her 401K with this previous employer. A friend of ours who works for a brokerage firm spoke to us about doing either an IRA rollover or possibly investing in a variable annuity.

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