{"id":84,"date":"2010-10-12T10:05:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T15:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2010-10-12T10:05:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T15:05:40","slug":"life-annuities-are-about-what-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/life-annuities-are-about-what-you-want","title":{"rendered":"Life annuities are about what you want"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">With a life annuity, most people hope to achieve  several goals, some of which are in conflict.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/_images\/annuity_rates_130x87.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-85\" title=\"annuity_rates_130x87\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/annuity_rates_130x87.jpg\" alt=\"annuity_rates_130x87\" width=\"130\" height=\"87\" \/><\/a>For example you want to leave some money for your  children, but if you take a longer guarantee period, you will receive less income  than you need.\u00a0 And if you don&#8217;t take the annuity at all, you may outlive your  capital!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The main advantages of life annuities are: <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">a) Freedom from worry. No longer will you have to  think about\u00a0what happens if\u00a0interest rate change or the stock market  collapses.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">b) Guaranteed income. You have a cheque deposited  each month alongside your pension cheques; you know for certain, what money you  will have each month.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a life annuity, most people hope to achieve several goals, some of which are in conflict. For example you[&#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-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}