Individuals will need to plan ahead better in light of new government life expectancy figures, says AJ Bell, provider of pensions, investment and stockbroker services.

A new report has suggested that the average life expectancy of men and women at the age of 65 has fallen in the past three years.

A new mortality model using science and the views of medical experts will help to improve life expectancy predictions, Willis Towers Watson claims.

Life expectancy at older ages in England as a whole is now the highest on record for all the age and sex groups studied, Public Health England says, though it fell in some regional areas.