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Steve Wilkie on rising life expectancy and John Deere

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Ever increasing life expectancy is a fantastic sign of the times, writes Steve Wilkie. However, it also brings 'extremely difficult' challenges...

While there is awareness over increased life expectancy in the UK, it's only now the massive implications are dawning on us. The big question is, what is being done to build a coherent, national strategy to tackle the myriad problems and benefits our longer lifespans will cause? In our line of work - lifetime mortgages - life expectancy is a fundamental component of the product, affecting many areas of decision making for the provider, adviser and customer. I was reading an issue of medical journal The Lancet recently, and an article attempted to shed light on how life expectancy is e...

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