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Canada – The baby boomer generation is starting to retire RBC report says
A new Royal Bank analysis suggests the Canada’s labour market is already starting to feel the impact of the aging workforce. The RBC paper notes that, given soft job growth in the past year and the corresponding decline in the labour participation rate, it is easy — and likely inaccurate — to jump to the … Continue reading
Ontario – How would the Retirement Pension Plan work ?
Often considered an issue that only engages politics at the federal level, pensions have dominated much of the early debate so far in the Ontario provincial election. The reason is a proposal put forward by Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne to create a made-in-Ontario pension called the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) to supplement the Canada … Continue reading
Millennials and Retirement – Saving more and at a much earlier age
Millennials are not only saving for retirement at an earlier age than their parent’s generation, but they are also saving more aggressively. This generation (born after 1978) started saving at a median age of 22, more than a decade earlier than their Baby Boomer parents and five years before Gen Xers, a survey from the … Continue reading
Retirement in US – Boomers working to stay employed
“With so many Baby Boomers planning to work longer and retire later, they are taking steps to stay marketable,” says Catherine Collinson, president of the non-profit Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, which commissioned the national survey of 4,143 full-time and part-time workers conducted this winter by Harris Poll. Although many Baby Boomers want to shift … Continue reading
Expenditures at Retirement – From “go-go” years, less active “slow-go” years and then to “no-go” years
Most retirement research assumes that retirees spending from a portfolio will seek to maintain a “real” inflation-adjusted standard of living throughout their retirement, just as they implicitly would have if their portfolio had been paid out as a steady pension with an annual cost-of-living adjustment. However, despite the simplicity of this assumption, retirement research has … Continue reading
US – Average retirement age up at 62 finds Gallup
The average age at which U.S. retirees report retiring is 62, the highest Gallup has found since first asking Americans this question in 1991. This age has increased in recent years, while the average age at which non-retired Americans expect to retire, 66, has largely stayed the same. However, this age too has slowly increased … Continue reading
US – The retirement crisis it’s not what some people want you to believe it is
America has a retirement crisis, but it’s not what some people want you to believe it is. It’s not the defined benefit pension plans that public employees pay into over a lifetime of work, which provide retirees an average of $23,400 annually (although some public officials fail to make their required contributions to these and … Continue reading
US – 59% are worried about not having enough money for retirement finds Gallup
A firm majority of Americans, 59%, are worried about not having enough money for retirement, surpassing eight other financial matters. A majority of Americans have reported being “very” or “moderately” worried about retirement savings every year since 2001, illustrating that saving for retirement disquiets Americans in both good and bad economic times. via Retirement Remains … Continue reading
US – Only 19 percent of lower-income individuals individuals aged 50-58 participated in a pension of any kind at their current jobs
In 2010, only 19 percent of individuals ages 50-58 whose household incomes were less than 300 percent of the poverty line participated in a pension of any kind at their current jobs, compared to 56 percent of those above 300 percent of poverty. This paper investigates this pension gap. In particular, we decompose the pension … Continue reading
US – What can be done about the rampant underfunding of public pension systems?
Improving Public Pensions: Balancing Competing Priorities by Patten Priestley Mahler, Chingos, and Whitehurst makes a significant contribution to the public pension discourse by providing policymakers and stakeholders with a framework for evaluating proposed reforms to pension systems – even in light of the frequently competing objectives of such systems. The authors begin by defining three … Continue reading
Saving for Retirement in US – Who’s not ?
Earlier this week, Encore asked the rhetorical question: “Do you have to be a bleeding heart to believe that it’s hard to save money when you aren’t making money?” The occasion was the publication of the annual Retirement Confidence Survey, which yielded the palm-smack-to-the-forehead statistic that 36% of Americans had saved $1,000 or less for … Continue reading
Older Workers in Australia / Pushed out of jobs says Age Discrimination Commissioner
YOUNGER bosses who nag older workers to take redundancies, tell them they\’re too old to receive training or deny them promotion are forcing thousands into early retirement. By also refusing to hire older workers they are adding to the nation’s ballooning health and welfare costs by pushing otherwise productive people on to the aged or … Continue reading
Pension in UK / Introduce a ‘collective defined contribution’ plan says a report
Reform is underway to encourage people to work for longer and to save into a pension. However, contributing at the rates required by auto-enrolment across a full working life will give the current generation of employees a less than 50:50 chance of a decent income in retirement. New pension products and strategies are urgently needed … Continue reading
US / Many baby boomers are reluctant to retire finds Gallup
True to their “live to work” reputation, some baby boomers are digging in their heels at the workplace as they approach the traditional retirement age of 65. While the average age at which U.S. retirees say they retired has risen steadily from 57 to 61 in the past two decades, boomers — the youngest of … Continue reading
A worldwide retirement crisis is coming
A global retirement crisis is bearing down on workers of all ages Continue reading
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