You may try doing something like this: 
use strict;
my @the_data = (
              {
                  field1 => 'first item',
                  field2 => 8,
                 field3 => 'z',
                  },

              {
                  field1 => 'second item',
                  field2 => 2,
                  field3 => 'b',
                  },

              {
                  field1 => 'third item',
                  field2 => 6,
                  field3 => 'c',
                  },

              );

# sort @the_data by field2 and field3...

for ( sort { ($$a{field2} <=> $$b{field2}) && ($$a{field3} cmp $$b{fie
+ld3}) } @the_data ) {
    print $$_{field1} . "\n";
}

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The output that I get is: 
 second item
third item
first item

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In your case, you may have maturity_yrs in place of field2 and rich_cheap instead of field3 inside my sort statement. You can sort your structures in any imaginable way using the sort and your own custom built sort subroutines.

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