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How do you know you’re a true financial geek?  The answer: You get excited when one of your friends asks you a money question because it means crunching some numbers with Excel! Okay … maybe not to that extreme, but that’s pretty much how I felt recently for a friend who had a question about whether or not to cash out his pension with an old employer.  Here was his email: So I attended a webinar today about the buyout (with my old employer).  Attached is a snip of the five options they gave us and what the amounts would be. Rollover to an IRA or another employer’s plan = $33,165.41 Rollover to the old employer’s 401k plan = $33,165.41 Take a pension lump-sum cash payment = $23,215.79 (minus taxes) Begin collecting monthly … [Read more...] about Ask MMD: Should I Do a Rollover, Pension Lump Sum or Annuity?