{"id":863,"date":"2012-10-04T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T17:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/?p=863"},"modified":"2012-10-04T12:48:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T17:48:01","slug":"wayne-gretzkys-best-investment-was-an-income-averaging-annuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/retirement\/wayne-gretzkys-best-investment-was-an-income-averaging-annuity","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Gretzky&#8217;s Best Investment was an Income-Averaging Annuity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article in the Financial Post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/2012\/10\/02\/financial-advice-from-wayne-gretzky\/\">Financial advice from Wayne\u00a0Gretzky<\/a>&#8221; the NHL&#8217;s all-time leading goal scorer\u00a0 called his best investment probably an <strong>income-averaging annuity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gretzky.wayne_.annuity1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-866\" title=\"wayne gretzky annuity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gretzky.wayne_.annuity1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gretzky.wayne_.annuity1.jpg 315w, https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gretzky.wayne_.annuity1-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a>While income-averaging annuities for athletes and artists are no longer available, annuities remain the only solid, guaranteed return for your retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, clients have bought universal life insurance, investment funds and other products, all the time looking for security, along with income.<\/p>\n<p>But security and a non guaranteed income do not go together ; it is one or the other.<\/p>\n<p>If you buy funds, whether\u00a0 alone or with a universal life policy, you must expect market fluctuations. So if the security and comfort of a regular income is what you need , then look at an annuity.<\/p>\n<p>Until you remove risk, it&#8217;s not planning &#8230;.it&#8217;s hoping.<\/p>\n<p>Click to view the best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/articles\/2012\/annuity-rates-canada-2012.html\">2012 annuity rates in Canada<\/a>. To calculate your annuity income please use our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeannuities.com\/calculator.html\">Annuity Calculator<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article in the Financial Post &#8220;Financial advice from Wayne\u00a0Gretzky&#8221; the NHL&#8217;s all-time leading goal scorer\u00a0 called his[&#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":[139,4,5,141,138,140,137],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","tag-advice","tag-annuities","tag-annuity","tag-financial","tag-income-averaging-annuity","tag-investment","tag-wayne-gretzky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeannuities.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}