"Bank of America's Merrill Edge Report is a semi-annual study that offers an in-depth look at the financial concerns, priorities and behaviors of mass affluent consumers, defined as people with $50,000-$250,000 in total household investable assets ... which consists of approximately 28 million house-holds in the United States ... Seventy-three percent of mass affluent fear that their retirement assets will not last throughout their lifetime, down from 83 percent in April 2012, and 84 percent of this group are concerned about the rising cost of health care, also down from 89 percent in the same time period."  MORE >>