{"id":418,"date":"2012-03-08T10:17:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2012-03-08T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T15:24:07","slug":"the-lowdown-on-annuities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/the-lowdown-on-annuities","title":{"rendered":"The Lowdown on Annuities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3 id=\"articletitle\">Video: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/globe-investor\/investment-ideas\/lets-talk-investing\/video-the-lowdown-on-annuities\/article2212782\/\">The lowdown on annuities<\/a><\/h3>\n<h5>Globe and Mail Update<br \/>\nPublished <time datetime=\"2012-03-05 05:23 -0500\" pubdate=\"\">Monday, Mar. 05, 2012 5:23AM E<\/time><\/h5>\n<div id=\"blurb\">Rob Carrick looks at how they work and the impact of low interest rates on returns<\/div>\n<p>My Comments:<\/p>\n<p>Where does this guy get his information and\/or his life experience?<\/p>\n<p>Only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\">life annuities<\/a> can give you a guaranteed life income. In response to your question about an investor with a low threshold of pain, the answer was obviously yes, not a bond that changes value or a GIC that pays zip interest which is fully taxable!<\/p>\n<p>And when are interest rates &#8221; going back to normal &#8221; as he says? Obama is keeping rates low until 2014 so Canada has very little room to move! By the time he gets to buy the annuity, that man&#8217;s executors are in charge.<\/p>\n<p>Advisers like that are dangerous to the public&#8217;s financial health!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: The lowdown on annuities Globe and Mail Update Published Monday, Mar. 05, 2012 5:23AM E Rob Carrick looks at[&#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-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}