Addressing the debtly hallows

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Clive Bolton discusses the findings of the recent Aviva Real Retirement Report - fears over retiring with debts is one of them

In decades gone by, the over-55 population was often ­(mistakenly) considered as one ­homogenous group, with the main distinction being that some were working and some were retired. Fortunately, the world has evolved. We now recognise that Jane Seymour (60), Ozzy Osborne (62), Cher (64) and Robert De Niro (67) may be similar ages, but they are all very different. Financial services need to move in the same direction. At Aviva, we created the Real Retirement Report to understand more about this population group and their financial pressure points. Since the launch of this piece of...

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