{"id":1362,"date":"2016-03-18T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2016-03-17T08:50:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T13:50:07","slug":"annuities-gain-attention-as-australians-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/annuities-gain-attention-as-australians-age","title":{"rendered":"Annuities gain attention as Australians age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below are my comments to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/banking-and-finance\/annuities-gain-attention-as-australians-age-20160315-gnj39x.html\">Annuities gain attention as Australians age<\/a>&#8221; by Ruth Liew <\/p>\n<p>Life annuities which guarantee you a life income are now in demand across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Americans who used to buy variable annuities tied to the stock market,are turning more and more to the guaranteed-for-life product which has no variation in income and no further costs.Australians also are joining Canadians who have stepped up their rate of purchase of theses products.<\/p>\n<p>These 3 countries are among the most affected by wild stock market volatility and the non-existent interest rates.The governments have been manipulating both to drive the public into the stock market where many people are nervous.<\/p>\n<p>But where else can they go? The governments know that their public have no choice as a 2% return results in a negative return after inflation and taxes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Annuities gain attention as Australians age <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AYnqdMhGwp\">https:\/\/t.co\/AYnqdMhGwp<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FinancialReview\">@FinancialReview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ivon T Hughes (@LifeAnnuities) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LifeAnnuities\/status\/710461551078207488\">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>Below are my comments to &#8220;Annuities gain attention as Australians age&#8221; by Ruth Liew Life annuities which guarantee you a[&#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":[306,4,304,305,303],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","tag-age","tag-annuities","tag-attention","tag-australians","tag-gain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","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=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}