Aviva has launched a new online planning service to help individuals engage in financial planning for the future, as research by the firm reveals 60% of the world's pre-retired adults worry they haven't saved enough for retirement.
The insurer’s survey ‘Consumer Attitudes to Savings 2006’, carried out by the Henley Centre Headlight Vision, revealed 48% of the 50,000 retired people questioned across the world regret not doing more to provide for their retirement, and half of all pre-retirees expect to work in their twilight years to fund their future. The research, which consists of interviews with adults in 21 countries, also shows only 30% of people in the UK are currently saving for retirement, compared with almost 50% of Americans and 75% of Hong Kong citizens. Aviva, the parent company of Norwich Union, says 6...
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