SAN DIEGO — Death and taxes may remain life's only pair of certainties, but if the last several decades have shown us anything, it's that death's taking longer to show up, while we can't seem to keep the taxman from coming back.
In his presentation Monday at the 2015 NAPA 401(k) Summit here, John Blossom Jr., president and CEO of Alliance Benefit Group of Illinois preached about the importance of aggressive — and creative — longevity management.
Over the last 60 years, the average lifespans for both men and women have crept up roughly 10 percent, from 77.9 for men to 86.6 (while women have jumped from and average of 80.9 years to 88.8 years). Worse (or better, I suppose) is that most 65-year-olds can expect to live anywhere from 10 to 20 years.
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