Survey results did indicate that boomers, who work closely with a financial professional, save a higher percentage, fourteen percent, of their annual income, which is about five percent more than those who are not working with a financial professional. Yet only twenty-three percent of those surveyed work closely with a financial professional.

Of those, seventy-one percent indicate that their financial professional helps them to understand different savings/investment products and sixty three percent feel they help simplify the investment process. It appears that the opportunity exists for financial professionals to assist baby boomers in developing a well-balanced plan for retirement.

Diane Allen
1-800-234-5606, ext. 73595
Dallen3@massmutual.com

MassMutual Financial Group -- comprised of member companies with over $233 billion in assets under management as of year-end 2001 -- is a global, growth- oriented, diversified financial services organization providing life insurance, annuities, disability income insurance, long-term care insurance, retirement planning products, structured settlement annuities, trust services, money management, and other financial products and services.

The MassMutual Financial Group is a marketing name for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and its subsidiaries, which include: OppenheimerFunds, Inc.; David L. Babson & Company Inc.; Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers, Inc.; MML Investors Services, Inc.; The MassMutual Trust Company, FSB; Antares Capital Corporation; and MML Bay State Life Insurance Company, C.M. Life Insurance Company, and MassMutual International. MassMutual International also has operations in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Bermuda, Chile, Luxembourg, Macao, Argentina and a representative office in Shanghai. MassMutual is on the Internet at www.massmutual.com.

Annuity products are issued by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, C.M. Life Insurance Company and MML Bay State Life Insurance Company. C.M. Life Insurance Company and MML Bay State Life Insurance Company are non- admitted in New York and are subsidiaries of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, 140 Garden Street, Hartford, CT 06154, MML Bay State Life Insurance Company, 1295 State Street, Springfield, MA 01111 (Principal Administrative Office).

Principal Underwriter
MML Distributors, LLC
1414 Main Street
Springfield, MA 01144
Wholly owned subsidiary of
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
1295 State Street
Springfield, MA 01111-0001
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