Business November 14 2025

Oran Hall | Increasing life expectancy a challenge for personal financial planning

Updated December 9 2025 3 min read

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As more people live longer, the question arises about how to fund and maintain the lifestyle people were used to in their pre-retirement years for their full retirement years. At the centre of this is the tension between rising costs and the declining value of income. I find it very interesting that so many of the people I know, whether from Hanover in my early years or from the Corporate Area, are alive and in relatively good shape in their 80s and 90s. And a few have scored a century.

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