{"id":1163,"date":"2013-04-24T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T14:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2013-04-24T09:54:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T14:54:12","slug":"the-retirement-gamble-facing-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/the-retirement-gamble-facing-us-all","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Retirement Gamble\u201d Facing Us All"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/business-economy-financial-crisis\/retirement-gamble\/the-retirement-gamble-facing-us-all\/#disqus_thread\">\u201cThe Retirement Gamble\u201d Facing Us <\/a>All by Martin Smith<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">This is an informative,wide ranging look at all the decisions the potential retiree has to face.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">It is not just the amount of money you need to save,though that is certainly important.But it is where and how you place you investments that could\u00a0cost a lot more in the amount of retirement benefits you actually receive.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">There are many traps here and maybe your best advice could come from a fee-only planner who charges you by the hour\u00a0He\u00a0knows in advance that the purchase of any product like an annuity,will not be purchased through him or any referral he makes.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">The products you can buy are numerous,with most opting for some type of investment fund.But if you remember 2008,when the market plunged,you need to think that you can&#8217;t afford to let this happen to you while you are retiring or retired.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">And it is here where you decide whether you want a fixed guaranteed income from an annuity or take you chances in a volatile marketplace.If you can,t afford to lose capital, be very, very afraid of investments over which you have no real control.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article \u201cThe Retirement Gamble\u201d Facing Us All by Martin Smith This is an informative,wide ranging look at all the decisions[&#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":[5,207,206,287],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","tag-annuity","tag-facing-all-of-us","tag-gamble","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","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=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}