Nine million mid-life employees 'sleep-walking' into retirement

Holly Roach
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Nearly nine million employees aged 45 and over are "sleep-walking" into retirement, unaware of how much they need to save, according to research from Aviva.

The report - which questioned more than 2,000 employees and scaled the results up to the UK population - revealed 64% did not know how much is needed to retire comfortably while 37% did not know ho...

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