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Two Britons in five spend no time at all planning for their financial futures, new research from Barclays has revealed.

Moreover a further 38 per cent spend less than 15 hours a year thinking about what will happen to their money.

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Is it a similar story in the US?

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Post Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:25 am
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I haven't seen any stats recently, but that's pretty close to what I've read about the situation here in the US.

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Scary isn't it? With the population in the western world generally rising in age there looks set to be a big pension problem with so few people of working age replacing those in retirement.

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