Nearly half of investors (46 percent) are afraid they’ll run out of money once they’ve stopped working.

So say the results of a new Wells Fargo/Gallup survey of investors with $10,000 or more in savings.

Worse, 36 percent of respondents who have already retired and 50 percent who have not said they were afraid they’d eventually have to rely on Social Security as their sole source of income to get by.

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