{"id":473,"date":"2012-03-27T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T15:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2012-03-27T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T15:38:16","slug":"are-annuities-still-a-viable-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/are-annuities-still-a-viable-product","title":{"rendered":"Are annuities still a viable product?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With uncertainty surrounding pension plans, Peter Wouters, director of retail insurance products and marketing with Kingston, Ontario based Empire Life Insurance Company, says many investors are still looking for a guaranteed source of income that lasts a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>He explains how annuities can work in an environment of low interest rates. He spoke with reporter Olivia Glauberzon at the TMX Broadcast Centre in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/-\/are-annuities-still-a-viable-product-for-clients-?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=nl&amp;utm_content=investmentexecutive&amp;utm_campaign=INT-EN-All-afternoon\">Click here to watch the video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With uncertainty surrounding pension plans, Peter Wouters, director of retail insurance products and marketing with Kingston, Ontario based Empire Life[&#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":[32],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","tag-annuity-video-annuities-viable-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","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=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}