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Why longevity fears overwhelm retirement planning

I have enough money to last until I am ninety but what if I live to be one hundred and spend my last years destitute and alone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The unknowable length of life transforms reasonable financial projections into exercises in existential dread.

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“Where Are You with Money in retirement — making it last?”

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