Tyler Randall · 08 Sep 2025 · 2 minutes

ANNUITY ALPHA

Ready for Your Next Client Win? Annuity Alpha Can Deliver It.

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Even as the summer sunshine fades, one strategy keeps its glow: Showing clients the value of an income annuity. 

And this month, I heard from an advisor who scored a big client win with the help of Stonewood’s Annuity Alpha report.

I’m not one to gatekeep success, so here’s the scoop: 


Leveraging a New Kind of Annuity Story

The power of Stonewood’s Annuity Alpha software is that it flips the annuity conversation on its head.

When meeting with clients, we’re often battling the belief that annuities just aren’t a good deal. Clients are interested in annuity income guarantees, but are often thinking: At what cost? That’s where Annuity Alpha comes in. This software analyzes the growth needed in your client’s brokerage account to match the annuity income guarantees.

And it’s powerful. A few weeks ago, an advisor called me to share an interesting story. 

This advisor met with a prospect whose money was being managed by a Ken Fisher advisor. And as you likely know, Ken Fisher and team HATE annuities. 

The Fisher advisor was projecting a  4%-5% income from this prospect’s portfolio as a systematic withdrawal. And the prospect felt pretty good about that. 

The new advisor knew an annuity would bring great value to this prospect’s retirement portfolio. But he had to battle this idea that annuities were expensive and unnecessary. 

So he leveraged Annuity Alpha. 

The report showed that the annuity he was presenting to the prospect could guarantee an income on his investment that would require an over 8% return every year from the brokerage account, just to match the cash flow that the annuity provides with no risk.

The prospect was stunned. 

That single conversation led to $1.5 million moved into an annuity with a long-term care doubler. The advisor delivered meaningful retirement security for his client (and earned a six-figure commission to boot). 

The best part? The client told the advisor, “I went back to my old advisor and told him I thought 5% was impressive, but it’s not. This report showed me I could take less risk and get more income for my money.” 

Talk about a win!


Your Fast Track to Becoming the Next Success Story

We would love for you to be our next Annuity Alpha success story. Don’t wait to see the impact for yourself.

Book a demo of Annuity Alpha and let it do the heavy lifting in your client conversations. You’ll see why advisors have started calling this report the “Ken Fisher killer.”

Your next win starts today. Book your demo with Annuity Alpha

Tyler Randall
About the Author

Tyler Randall

Tyler Randall is the National Sales Director at Stonewood Financial. He works with financial advisors across the United States helping them position annuities strategically in retirement plans. Over the past 15 years, he's coached advisors who have written over $400M in annuity premium. His approach focuses on consultative selling, data-driven positioning, and building client confidence through transparency. Tyler is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and webinars.

Real Advisors. Real Results.

See how advisors are using Stonewood software to win larger cases and deliver better outcomes for their clients.

An advisor was working with a prospect who was a real "do-it-yourselfer" when it came to Roth conversions. The client was converting assets up their existing tax bracket – and hadn't considered any impact to IRMAA.

With Roth Done Right, the advisor was able to show an alternate pattern that sped up the conversion to 6 years. The new structure offered $30,000 savings in conversion taxes – a 20% reduction on the prospect's conversion tax bill. The report also showed hundreds of thousands of dollars in long-term tax and IRMAA savings from the converted assets – an amount the prospect hadn't been able to quantify on his own.

Outcome

A new client with $1M in new AUM, and a $1M FIA sale to fund the conversion process.

An advisor was working with a prospect who already had assets with Ken Fisher. Fisher's team presented a 5% systematic withdrawal projection, so the advisor needed a stronger way to frame the income conversation.

Using the Annuity Alpha report, the advisor showed how an annuity could deliver over 8% in annual cash flow with lifetime income, plus a long-term care doubler. The contrast was clear enough that the prospect moved forward.

Outcome

$1.5M placed and a $100K in new business revenue.

An advisor was working with a 58-year-old couple with an established, well-funded retirement income plan, leaving an additional $3M IRA to build out a legacy for the kids. The couple's existing advisor had no real additional plan for this money, other than to keep it in their managed account and grow that money as much as possible for the kids.

Using the Legacy Done Right report, the advisor showed the need for tax planning on this $3M IRA. According to the advisor, the simple analysis "opened up the wallet" to the Roth conversion story. The advisor then used the blended Roth/Life feature in the report to show a blend of Roth Conversion assets with some Life Insurance to help maximize the client’s legacy.

Outcome

$3M in motion. The advisor picked up a $1.5M FIA sale that will be converted to Roth. And the advisor also sold a 5-Pay Protection focused IUL policy at $225,000 of premium per year.

An advisor group incorporated the Total Tax Burden report into the strategy presentation for all new prospects. They ran the tax snapshot for every new client as part of their first meeting conversation, quantifying the growing tax burden of IRA money – and illustrating the kinds of tax savings possible when working with their firm.

Starting in January of 2023, this simple analysis was presented to every single prospect who walked in the door. The goal was to differentiate their practice and drive overall revenue growth through various Roth conversion strategies.

Outcome

From 2022 to 2025, new annual AUM rose from $5M to $50M. Annual FIA sales rose from $3M to $35M. And annual life premium rose from $50K to $1M.