Follow up April 21, 2009 posting, Gallup Poll: Americans Increasingly Concerned About Retirement Income, this new survey, Consumer Trends in the
Current Market Environment, April 2009: “AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company…released results of a February 2009 consumer study that shows most Americans over the past year have grown increasingly worried about making ends meet. And while protecting themselves from outliving their retirement savings remains their top concern, they are slow to do anything about it. The study revisits the same financial concerns addressed in the first AXA Equitable survey conducted in April 2008, and repeated last October. In the latest survey, 65 percent of those polled said they were concerned about meeting everyday expenses, including the ability to pay their mortgage, should they lose their job – up from 54 percent a year ago.”