{"id":3475,"date":"2011-12-06T04:56:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T09:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2011-12-06T04:56:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T09:56:58","slug":"metlife-everything-is-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3475","title":{"rendered":"MetLife: “Everything is on the table”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been cautioning since 2008 not to run out and buy annuities or life insurance to try to put money in a safe place.<\/p>\n

MetLife now admits its target of earning 12-14% is no longer possible and it will begin selling off or shutting down some of its products. This is from a story available over one Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

There are very few assets protecting investors from an insurance company failure. In its final days, AIG was trying to get money out of its policy portfolios and replace it with IOUs from the parent company – not very different from what MF Global is reported to have done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been cautioning since 2008 not to run out and buy annuities or life insurance to try to put money in a safe place. MetLife now admits its target of earning 12-14% is no longer possible and it will begin … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collapse-of-america","category-global-finances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3476,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}