{"id":1322,"date":"2015-07-06T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T17:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2015-07-06T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T17:14:07","slug":"afraid-of-outliving-your-money-heres-why-annuities-might-be-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/afraid-of-outliving-your-money-heres-why-annuities-might-be-for-you","title":{"rendered":"Afraid of outliving your money? Here&#8217;s why annuities might be for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My comments of a recent article by Craig Wong, The Associated Press &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/5things\/afraid-of-outliving-your-money-annuities-might-be-for-you-1.2455140\">Afraid of outliving your money? Here&#8217;s why annuities might be for you<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Golombek managing director for tax and estate planning at CIBC Wealth Advisory Services is correct; an annuity provides guaranteed funds, usually monthly, to meet your continuing needs after your regular pay cheque ends.<\/p>\n<p>And Crystal Wong, senior regional manager at TD Wealth Financial Planning is incorrect in trying to compare annuities to &#8220;alternative investments&#8221;. There are none. You either guarantee your income with an annuity or you don&#8217;t; your choice.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Afraid of outliving your money? Here&#8217;s why annuities might be for you: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/LwFS89Q3os\">http:\/\/t.co\/LwFS89Q3os<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/HcTgQe7Jd2\">pic.twitter.com\/HcTgQe7Jd2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CTV News (@CTVNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTVNews\/status\/618037793848209408\">July 6, 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>My comments of a recent article by Craig Wong, The Associated Press &#8220;Afraid of outliving your money? Here&#8217;s why annuities[&#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":[275,4,276,278,280,279,244,250,277],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","tag-afreaid","tag-annuities","tag-craig","tag-crystal","tag-golombek","tag-jamie","tag-money","tag-outliving","tag-wong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","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=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}