Coupled with social security in the US and OAS in Canada, life annuities provide a carefree guaranteed income. You don’t compare this to a return on a CD or a GIC because you have changed your mindset. Instead of worrying about interest rates and which fund to trust, you have made a choice. You’ve stopped looking at the fees on your ever-changing mutual funds and have traded those worries for a secure income.<\/span><\/p>\n Remember to always differentiate between life annuities and variable annuities which normally have all sorts of bells and whistles. With a life annuity you trade your money for a secure income. That is why you buy a life annuity. Well this is the first time I have ever read an article about life annuities that bring out the main[…]<\/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-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Safe](\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/safe3-130x150.jpg\" "\\"Safe")
Life annuities are about security; there is no expiration date. Remember <\/span>that, no expiration dat<\/span>e. While your friends <\/span>are trying to figure out their bond<\/span>s and stock funds, you have deposited each month in your bank account, a cheque which will go on forever for you and your spouse.<\/span><\/p>\n
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