Shortly after the stock market began its descent, Mr Rob Phelan, a high school maths teacher in Maryland, received an e-mail sales pitch: "The Coronavirus may be Fatal - to Your Retirement Savings!"
The note, punctuated with exclamation points, offered a seemingly magical solution, something called a fixed indexed annuity. Its "value can only go up!" it said.
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