Retirement Pessimism Abounds

[Onward]

A new Hartford Financial Services Group survey finds a striking sense of pessimism about the quality of respondents' retirement, with a hunger for enjoying life being replaced with a concern about affording the basics.

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[LOL!]

Anybody who uses Hartford should be very pessismist since their fees are about 2% of assets each and every year. No one could retire paying their fees.

 

[REWahoo]

I thought the last line of that quote was going to read:

"...with a hunger for enjoying life being replaced with a concern about going hungry."

 

[walkinwood]

Maybe people are getting more sane. 100% should have food shelter and basic needs as their primary concern. Everything else should always be secondary.

Hartford news release said 69.3% of those polled reported their primary retirement concern is paying for food, shelter and other basic needs – significantly greater than the 24.5% who gave that answer in a 2007 survey.