{"id":1282,"date":"2014-09-25T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T17:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2014-09-25T12:03:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T17:03:31","slug":"should-you-consider-an-annuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/should-you-consider-an-annuity","title":{"rendered":"Should you consider an annuity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My comments to &#8220;<strong>Should you consider an\u00a0annuity?&#8221; <\/strong>by Kevin Press at <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/116204470183874578757?rel=author\" target=\"_blank\">BrighterLife.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Should you consider an annuity? An annuity\u2019s promise of guaranteed income is attractive in volatile markets. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/rEt78fYhZ0\">http:\/\/t.co\/rEt78fYhZ0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ivon T Hughes (@LifeAnnuities) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LifeAnnuities\/status\/515182637447925761\">September 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mr Press has emphasized perhaps the most important element in the purchase of annuities today.<\/p>\n<p>As the largest seller of life annuities in Canada, in which we specialize at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\">www.lifeannuities.com<\/a>, we find that that most people seem to believe that it is 1-5 year GIC rates which set the scenario for the payouts which is not true at all.<\/p>\n<p>And even if long term bond rates do rise,there is still no guarantee that annuity rates will go up. And of course you are getting older and losing time to enjoy the income.You might want to read &#8221; Retirement Income; income that lasts a lifetime &#8221; which you can find here. Hopefully it will give you some ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My comments to &#8220;Should you consider an\u00a0annuity?&#8221; by Kevin Press at BrighterLife.ca Should you consider an annuity? An annuity\u2019s promise[&#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":[5,177,178,253,256,46,45,254,255,257],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","tag-annuity","tag-buy","tag-buying","tag-consider","tag-long","tag-rate","tag-rates","tag-short","tag-ter","tag-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","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=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}