How Can You Leave a Lasting Legacy?

 

You want to leave the best legacy possible. But when it comes to a variable annuity, the choices your beneficiaries have upon your death may have some limitations and drawbacks. A lump sum of money, for example, may leave them facing a large tax bill. And annuitization—converting the dollars into a permanent income stream—is irrevocable, and beneficiaries lose a measure of control.Extended Legacy Planning is a concept that gives control back to both you and your beneficiaries, and at the same time makes it possible for you to extend your legacy even further. Talk to your financial advisor about whether Extended Legacy Planning with SunAmerica Variable Annuities may be appropriate for you.  

 

Help Extend,Control and Protect Your Variable Annuity Assets  

 

• Extend—With Extended Legacy Planning in investments that defer taxes (such as IRAs or variable annuities), you can create a tax-advantaged plan that not only helps reduce the tax burden of your beneficiaries, but also may “stretch” the life of your annuity assets for the benefit of your children and grandchildren.

• Control—With the  Guided Legacy Program (which is a component of Extended Legacy Planning), you can designate how and when beneficiaries will receive the assets in your variable annuity.

• Protect—the variable annuity investment you choose as part of the Extended Legacy Planning program can help you safeguard your beneficiaries’death benefit against market fluctuations, ensuring that they receive distributions of at least the amount of money you’ve invested, even if the market drops. They may even receive additional dollars to help provide for their financial future, depending on the death benefit option you’ve chosen in your annuity. (Enhanced death benefit options may incur an additional fee. Guarantees are backed by the claims-paying ability of the issuing insurance company and do not apply to the performance of the underlying investments.)

 

Extended Legacy Planning from SunAmerica can help you leave a lasting legacy to the people you care about most—your family and heirs.You can use Extended Legacy Planning both in qualified variable annuities (IRAs), or non-qualified (not funding a qualified plan/IRA). See how Extended Legacy Planning may work for your situation with a non-qualified variable annuity or a variable annuity funded by an IRA . 

 

Important Note:   The Extended Legacy program is not a variable annuity product in and of itself. Your financial advisor can provide you with a variable annuity kit, including a prospectus, that explains the full features and benefits of the variable annuity that you may be considering in order to put the Extended Legacy concepts to work for you. Please ask your financial advisor about this variable annuity client kit and prospectus. Extended Legacy Planning is the name of the "stretch" program at SunAmerica. The "stretch" concept is not unique to variable annuities or SunAmerica. You can apply the stretch concept to IRAs that are invested in assets other than a variable annuity, and other variable annuity companies may also offer stretch programs.

 

Tax-qualified plans such as IRAs are tax deferred regardless of whether or not they are funded with an annuity. However, annuities do provide other features and benefits, including but not limited to a guaranteed death benefit and income options, for which a mortality and expense risk fee is charged. Required minimum distributions apply when a qualified plan is funded by an annuity. Guarantees are backed by the claims-paying ability of the insurer. You should discuss your decision to use a variable annuity within a qualified plan with your investment representative.  

 

 

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