Longevity, AI, and why we need more empathy in advice

'The future of advice isn't about being smarter. It's about being more human'

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If we are all living longer, shouldn't our lives - and our finances - be structured completely differently? Ruth Handcock looks at the issues

I was recently lucky enough to meet professor Andrew Scott, co-author of The 100-Year Life. He shared a thought-provoking idea that many of us have been ignoring for too long: if we're all living longer, shouldn't our lives - and our finances - be structured completely differently? He pointed to the death of the three-stage life. This was referring to a traditional trajectory: study, work, retire. If that was ever a tidy plan (and let's be honest, for most people it wasn't), it's now being upended by the messy reality of longer lives, and more career changes, alongside a pension system t...

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