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How to maximise longevity of your living annuity

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IN THE SAVINGS and investment space, most attention is given to retirement. Rightly so too. If you’re going to maintain your standard of living for two, three, or even four decades after you stop working, you need to have as much money saved up as possible.

Unfortunately, less attention is given to ensuring your money keeps growing post-retirement. But that’s also really important.

At the very least, you want your retirement savings to keep up with inflation. Even more ideally, you want them to be resilient enough to get you through major “black swan” economic events.

Investors can get the most

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