{"id":1158,"date":"2013-04-23T07:54:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2013-04-23T07:54:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T12:54:13","slug":"investments-should-you-convert-retirement-savings-to-an-annuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/investments-should-you-convert-retirement-savings-to-an-annuity","title":{"rendered":"Investments: Should you convert retirement savings to an annuity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This is my recent comment on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcoislandflorida.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20130419\/MARCOBUSINESS\/304190036\/Should-you-convert-retirement-savings-an-annuity-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Home\">Investments:\u00a0 Should you convert retirement savings to an annuity<\/a>?&#8221; written by Vince Magee<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">This is a good general description of most of the issues you need to consider when contemplating an annuity purchase.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">The main item is whether the capital you are thinking of investing in the annuity needs to provide a lifetime income.If not,then you just need to take all the usual precautions against the loss of the capital.And remember,you are better off earning a very small return,than risking loss of capital as without capital,you can,t play.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">If the capital must supply a lifetime income for and\/or your spouse,different thinking is needed.Here you must think about a strong company rather than the higher\u00a0monthly income you may get for your annuity from a weaker competitor.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my recent comment on &#8220;Investments:\u00a0 Should you convert retirement savings to an annuity?&#8221; written by Vince Magee This[&#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":[5,135,287],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","tag-annuity","tag-convert","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","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=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}