10% FOR LIFE

In the articles this year I have been looking at the retirement scene in the future and as you will have gathered I think that the golden age has come and gone and that in future we will all work a lot longer and retirement will be a period when we cannot work because...

Will retirement survive?

This is the third and most serious of my articles on this subject. In this article I look at how the middle-aged and young will survive financially in older life and what retirement, if there is such a thing will look like. For those in their 40s or younger unless...

Will retirement survive?

Last month I looked at how retirement flourished in the 1980s and 1990s. We now move on to the new millennium. As I indicated at the end of the article we had not taken into account changing social and economic needs. The most important change concerned the life of...