{"id":1360,"date":"2016-03-17T08:23:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T13:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2016-03-17T08:23:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T13:23:19","slug":"volatility-driving-retirees-to-think-longevity-annuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/volatility-driving-retirees-to-think-longevity-annuity","title":{"rendered":"Volatility driving retirees to think longevity annuity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my comments to a recent article by CNBC &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/03\/13\/volatility-driving-retirees-to-think-longevity-annuity.html\">Volatility driving retirees to think longevity annuity<\/a>&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This continuous debate over annuities and their use in retirement incomes is attracting more people.<\/p>\n<p>If you think that an annuity should provide a guaranteed income, what you need is a life or immediate annuity. The payments will be fixed, no more costs and in no way subject to stock market valuations. You are buying a life income with your funds and that&#8217;s the end of the story.<\/p>\n<p>But if you want to stay,at least partially in the market,then a variable annuity is the way to go. But these annuities incur a lot of costs,some hidden, so you should get all your costs written out for you, not hidden in a glossy binder<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Volatility drives retirees to annuities <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N1EljvCbGu\">https:\/\/t.co\/N1EljvCbGu<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNBC\">@cnbc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ivon T Hughes (@LifeAnnuities) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LifeAnnuities\/status\/710455386864750592\">March 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my comments to a recent article by CNBC &#8220;Volatility driving retirees to think longevity annuity&#8221; This continuous debate[&#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":[5,300,220,301,302,191,299],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","tag-annuity","tag-driving","tag-longevity","tag-retirees","tag-think","tag-to","tag-volatility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","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=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}