{"id":14853,"date":"2011-04-25T20:20:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T00:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=14853"},"modified":"2011-04-25T20:20:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T00:20:37","slug":"research-the-annuity-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=14853","title":{"rendered":"Research: The Annuity Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annuities are very popular for retirees &#8211; and, indeed, were until recently compulsory when an insolvent pension plan was being wound down &#8211; but are largely misunderstood. I examined some of their investment characteristics in my recent article &#8220;The Annuity Decision&#8221;, published in the March\/April, 2011, edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianmoneysaver.ca\">Canadian Moneysaver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Look for the research link!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.himivest.com\/media\/moneysaver_1103.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/images\/ad_annuity.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>Update, 2011-6-15<\/b>: Regretably, the link to the publicly available annuity rate information given in the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=15356\">is no longer operational<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update, 2011-9-27<\/b>: Canadian annuity rate data, collected by CANNEX, is now being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeinvestor.com\/servlet\/Page\/document\/v5\/data\/rates?pageType=annuity\">published by the Globe &#038; Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annuities are very popular for retirees &#8211; and, indeed, were until recently compulsory when an insolvent pension plan was being wound down &#8211; but are largely misunderstood. I examined some of their investment characteristics in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}