{"id":1247,"date":"2014-05-12T08:28:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T13:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2014-05-16T10:16:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T15:16:20","slug":"should-your-life-expectancy-be-part-of-your-financial-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/should-your-life-expectancy-be-part-of-your-financial-planning","title":{"rendered":"Should your life expectancy be part of your financial planning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My comments on\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/2014\/05\/03\/should-your-life-expectancy-be-part-of-your-financial-planning\/\">Should your life expectancy be part of your financial\u00a0planning?<\/a>&#8221; by Garry Marr of the Financial Post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FPpersonal_fin\">@FPpersonal_fin<\/a> Should your life expectancy be part of your financial planning? <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/lB9BwasOh9\">http:\/\/t.co\/lB9BwasOh9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Financial Post (@financialpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/financialpost\/statuses\/462555697813524480\">May 3, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rick and Carol got it right!<\/p>\n<p>It is all about your health, not your money. Rick saved for umpteen years and now he can&#8217;t spend it.And Carol is facing that question but from the still-healthy side.<\/p>\n<p>Carol should buy the largest income she can get in an annuity and start the income now;otherwise she can end up like Rick.<\/p>\n<p>Clients continually tell me that &#8221; annuity rates will go up &#8221; as they wait to act. Actually they&#8217;ve been telling me that for more than 10 years as the rates slowly drop and their lives ebb away.<\/p>\n<p>If you get sick or lose your partner,it is all for naught. There are only 2 considerations in retirement planning; action and guarantees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My comments on\u00a0 &#8220;Should your life expectancy be part of your financial\u00a0planning?&#8221; by Garry Marr of the Financial Post. From[&#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":[4,5,233,60,287],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","tag-annuities","tag-annuity","tag-expectancy","tag-life","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","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=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}