Annuities have become the investments of choice for streetwise professionals and individual investors. The process of annuities investing is demystified by showing how they work, profiling their returns potential and revealing the comparative advantages and shortcomings of annuities in building a profitable annuity investment portfolio. Lists 150+ companies that offer variable annuities and pinpoints the best performing fixed-rate and variable annuities. A wide range of annuity products are evaluated--aggressive growth/small cap, growth and income, international, money market, balanced and more.