Protecting Your Assets with Steve Shyman
Oct 3, 2026 · 52 min · 36 segments
In this episode, Steve Shyman discusses strategies for retirement planning, including the benefits of fixed index annuities over bonds, managing early retirement, and how to protect your assets in…
Steve ScheinmanHost
Morgan PatrickHost
Seems like the last month, Steve, we've started off the show just talking about the uncertainty that's out there.
You know, we all like to earn compound interest on our money in the market or money in the bank.
And I realized just last night that the uncertainty itself is just compounding.
I mean, ever since COVID, every day we wake up, we're just hit with some other kind of uncertainty.
And, you know, when it does come to retirement, uncertainty is definitely not the goal.
having a defined outcome, a plan where we know we can retire and our money's going to last as long as we do, I think that's really important.
So one thing that we can help people do is at least on the money that they want to protect and be certain about is eliminating the compounding uncertainty on that part of your money.
All right, so we've checked off the uncertainty, or at least we've acknowledged it, and we're doing this every single week.
It seems like every time we get to a Monday, we're jumping on another super roller coaster because here we go.
And a lot of people, it's been slipping lately, but a lot of people are worried.
Yet a lot of us sit there hoping that it keeps going up and hoping that it doesn't go down.
Seems like the last month, Steve, we've started off the show just talking about the uncertainty that's out there.
You know, we all like to earn compound interest on our money in the market or money in the bank.
And I realized just last night that the uncertainty itself is just compounding.
I mean, ever since COVID, every day we wake up, we're just hit with some other kind of uncertainty.
And, you know, when it does come to retirement, uncertainty is definitely not the goal.
having a defined outcome, a plan where we know we can retire and our money's going to last as long as we do, I think that's really important.
So one thing that we can help people do is at least on the money that they want to protect and be certain about is eliminating the compounding uncertainty on that part of your money.
All right, so we've checked off the uncertainty, or at least we've acknowledged it, and we're doing this every single week.
It seems like every time we get to a Monday, we're jumping on another super roller coaster because here we go.
And a lot of people, it's been slipping lately, but a lot of people are worried.
Yet a lot of us sit there hoping that it keeps going up and hoping that it doesn't go down.
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