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Podcast: Retire Today
Episode: Why Your Life Expectancy Number Might Be Wrong with Dale Hall
Description: Dale Hall of the Society of Actuaries explains how to project your longevity and why informed life expectancy matters for retirement planning.
Most people build their retirement plan around a single number: life expectancy.
They’ll say, “My dad died at 78, my mom at 82, so I’ll probably be gone by then too.” Then they quietly design their plan to “run out” around that age.
But as my guest Dale Hall, Managing Director of Research at the Society of Actuaries, shared on the Retire Today podcast, that’s a risky way to approach the rest of yo...