Tim Orton: The seven ages of retirement planning

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Tim Orton runs through the different ages - or stages - of retirement planning and highlights how changing priorities could drive conversations between advisers and their clients

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players." So pronounced Jacques - by way of William Shakespeare - in As You Like It, before going on to describe the "seven ages of man", from "infant mewling and puking", through schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, "the lean and slippered pantaloon" to old age - "Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything". We would not wish to take a metaphor too far in comparing Aviva's latest Real Retirement Report with any of the works by the great man, but our latest research in the series - which now dates back to 2010 - explore...

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