{"id":1155,"date":"2013-04-22T11:51:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T16:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2013-04-22T11:51:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T16:51:31","slug":"buying-an-annuity-when-doing-it-yourself-costs-more-than-getting-expert-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/buying-an-annuity-when-doing-it-yourself-costs-more-than-getting-expert-advice","title":{"rendered":"Buying an annuity: when doing it yourself costs more than getting expert advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Below is my recent comment on the following article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/personalfinance\/pensions\/10007498\/Buying-an-annuity-when-doing-it-yourself-costs-more-than-getting-expert-advice.html\">Buying an annuity: when doing it yourself costs more than getting expert advice<\/a>&#8221; by Richard Evans from\u00a0 The Telegraph<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">We remember the car\u00a0mechanic&#8217;s sign that says $39 an hour without your supervision, otherwise $59 an hour.And that certainly applies to annuity purchases.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">We receive emails from clients who are doing their own annuity\u00a0shopping from company to company trying to get the best deal. But are they comparing the correct c<span style=\"font-size: small;\">r<\/span>iteria for their situation in life? And are all the brokers replying on the same basis?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">If you want your Will drawn correctly, your car fixed and the best possible income from your annuity, consult an expert. These and many other fields cannot be fixed by online reading, and in this context, you need an annuity expert.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is my recent comment on the following article &#8220;Buying an annuity: when doing it yourself costs more than getting[&#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":[139,5,200],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","tag-advice","tag-annuity","tag-expert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","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=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}