{"id":434,"date":"2012-03-23T09:39:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T14:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2012-03-23T09:39:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T14:39:19","slug":"what-is-an-annuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/what-is-an-annuity","title":{"rendered":"What is an annuity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/brochures\/brochures.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-441\" title=\"brochure what is an annuity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brochure_canadalife_130x1402.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>An <strong><em>annuity<\/em><\/strong> is a contract between you and an insurance company that gives you a guaranteed income for life. A fixed sum of money paid to you each month or each year, typically for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit our online page on <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/what-is-an-annuity.html\">What is an annuity? <\/a>For a detailed explanation, brochures, ebooks and more.<\/p>\n<p>Each <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\">annuity<\/a> has its own characteristics, but the overall accepted meaning of the word <em>annuity<\/em>, is a payment guaranteed for a certain period or for life or for life with a minimum income period.<\/p>\n<p>This video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zys8ViwaAkQ\">What is an annuity?<\/a> gives you a general idea of what an annuity will do for you. Perhaps the greatest attraction is the security of a permanent income a &#8221; Paycheque for Life&#8221; or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/articles\/2011\/money-for-life.html\">Money for Life<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>A simple way to understand what is an annuity is to use or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/calculator.html\">annuity calculator<\/a> to calculate what your monthly income would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An annuity is a contract between you and an insurance company that gives you a guaranteed income for life. 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":[21],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","tag-what-is-an-annuity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","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=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}