These benefits include increased living standards and healthcare, and longer life spans. A longer life means your pensions and any other investment income in retirement have to last for longer; maintaining financial planning advice is more vital than ever to ensure you don’t outlive your income; and families may now stretch across more than three generations, making estate planning more of a challenge.

In this guide, we introduce some of the main financial planning aspects of longer life. For more information on any of the issues raised, please talk to us.