{"id":115,"date":"2010-10-28T10:42:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T15:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2016-10-05T14:36:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T19:36:30","slug":"is-an-annuity-a-good-choice-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/is-an-annuity-a-good-choice-for-me","title":{"rendered":"Is an annuity a good choice for me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/iStock_000003887491Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-116\" title=\"is an annuity right for me?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/iStock_000003887491Small-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> Is an annuity a good choice for me?<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to answer this question on life annuities as there are so many factors to take into consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Some are:<\/p>\n<p>AGE: you are fed up with the volatile markets and low GIC rates and you just want a guaranteed life annuity income with no headaches.<br \/>\nGUARANTEE: You want your income guaranteed<\/p>\n<p>CAPITAL :Your savings are registered money which can only be left,without prior taxation,to a spouse in a life annuity<\/p>\n<p>FEAR: The life annuity rates may go lower,but if you wait you,ll miss out on an unknown number of monthly payments.<\/p>\n<p>The man in the street always has the least choice in avoiding taxes but here at least,he can use his age to get an advantage with a life annuity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is an annuity a good choice for me? It is difficult to answer this question on life annuities as there[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}