{"id":1301,"date":"2015-02-20T12:19:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T17:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2015-02-20T12:19:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T17:19:11","slug":"video-rob-carrick-why-you-shouldnt-dismiss-annuities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/video-rob-carrick-why-you-shouldnt-dismiss-annuities","title":{"rendered":"Video: Rob Carrick &#8211; Why you shouldn&#8217;t dismiss annuities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The questions about annuities are a common theme in financial discussions.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re worried about your financial return on an annuity, remember that it is not an &#8220;investment&#8221; which you can compare to stocks, bonds, GIC&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>However if you want to be guaranteed a cheque every month for the rest of your life to pay your bills, an annuity is what you need. It will give you a greater return than a GIC, the interest on which is 100% taxable. Above all else, it will give you security.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t confuse investments and annuities; they serve the same goal, through different channels similar to a boat and a plane going to the same country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Video: Why you shouldn&#8217;t dismiss annuities. Guaranteed, no-stress <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/retirement?src=hash\">#retirement<\/a> income for life. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/H49VyVDS3m\">http:\/\/t.co\/H49VyVDS3m<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/12oAC5JbdZ\">pic.twitter.com\/12oAC5JbdZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rob Carrick (@rcarrick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rcarrick\/status\/567674648708788224\">February 17, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The questions about annuities are a common theme in financial discussions. If you&#8217;re worried about your financial return on an[&#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":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","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=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}