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Financial planning not a high priority for most Americans

Among their New Year's resolutions, many Americans feel they don't make enough money to worry about financial and retirement planning in 2013.

By Paula Aven Gladych | Updated on December 18, 2012

Eighty-four percent of Americans will not include financial planning in their New Year’s resolutions, according to a new survey by Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America.  The lack of financial focus is the highest it has been since Allianz founded its New Year’s Resolution survey in 2009.

No New Year PlanningThe top reason for leaving financial planning out of resolutions was respondents’ belief that they don’t make enough to worry about it (32 percent) or they already have a solid financial plan (26 percent). Twenty percent attributed it to their lack of an advisor or financial professional.

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