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Preparing for retirement with annuities

Given todays unsure retirement environment, many employees are searching for options besides their 401(k) plans, especially considering how long people typically live after retirement, says Clark Frese, principal at Asset Strategy Retirement Plan Consultants.

By Amanda McGrory-Dixon | Updated on October 19, 2011

Given today’s unsure retirement environment, many employees are searching for options besides their 401(k) plans, especially considering how long people typically live after retirement, says Clark Frese, principal at Asset Strategy Retirement Plan Consultants and an adviser at the Institutional Retirement Income Council. Unlike previous generations, employees on the cusp of retirement live much longer, and more funding is necessary to counter these longer lives.

“Many people are living 30 years or so into retirement, where our grandparents only lived about five or six years into retirement,” Frese says. “The generations that are planning for retirement now have a whole different set of responsibilities for themselves because you can imagine the difference between planning for 30 years or five or six years. Thirty years seems like a lifetime.”

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