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Duane Johnson Group

Duane Johnson Group

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my investment did not receive any benefit. Rolled over my 401k into an account recommended after 1…read moreyear no interested and the seconded no interested. He offered to take the money and invest it into another account with restesion to keep the 10 years

In early 2017, my wife and I attended a financial seminar hosted by Duane Johnson at a local…read moreTemecula restaurant. It was at that seminar that Duane introduced the attendees to a fixed annuity product that he stated would provide a 7% rate of return and a guarantee of no loss of accumulated principal during downturns in the market. At a follow-up meeting at Duane's office in Murrieta, Duane directed our attention to the Benefit Base column of the Calculator Summary chart to show how our investment, with a 5.5% bonus, in a Security Benefit Life Insurance Company Fixed Index Flexible Premium Deferred Annuity would nearly double after nine years. Based on his recommendation, we purchased this product. It wasn't until more than a year later when we met with another financial advisor, that we were informed that the product we purchased was not providing us with a 7% return of accumulated value. As a matter of fact, this advisor showed us that our contract had a cap of 2.5% and a 1% fee for purchasing the Guaranteed Lifetime Annual Income rider. In other words, the maximum amount of return of our investment would be 1.5% before taxes and assuming that the market would continue to grow at a rate of 2.5% or better, which is not guaranteed. When we recently met with Duane to discuss our findings and to show him that the rate of return on our investment was not 7% as he originally stated, but more like 1.5%, he did not dispute our figures and had no comment other than to say that he thought it was the best product to suit our financial needs. In our opinion, Duane acted deceptively by focusing our attention on the Benefit Base column from which the lifetime withdrawal rate is calculated and not on the actual Account Value our investment would potentially earn at the conclusion of the nine-year term of the contract. It is our opinion that Duane was purposely deceptive in order to sell a product and earn a commission, rather than act in his client's best interests, and that he acted both unprofessionally and unethically. We have since terminated our investment (July 2019) with Security Benefit and were actually assessed an early termination penalty of approximately $750! Additionally, if we had invested our money in a bank CD during that same time period, we would have earned about $2000. Total loss for the time we owned this product is nearly $2750.

The Sexton Advisory Group - financialadvising - Updated July 2026

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