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Increasing longevity has a real effect on how much money people put aside for their retirement. Simon O'Connor discusses why good advice is vital for ensuring people make adequate provision

It doesn't matter how many times you say it, it still sounds the same and, to many people, it still doesn't mean anything. Longevity. It is a word that a few years back didn't seem to matter and it wasn't something the baby boomer generation's parents had to worry about. In those days, the summers were always hot, the winters bitterly cold and the working man had a final salary pension to rely on. How things have changed. Longevity is now something that we all face and many will suffer from for the rest of their lives, yet still the vast majority are ignorant of what it means or how it wi...

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