Every single day from now until 2030, about 10,000 Baby Boomers turn 65. While this doesn’t mean we become instantly feeble on our birthday, it does mean that we must start planning ahead for things that will be much more difficult to handle later. Unfortunately, too many of us avoid thinking about tomorrow, with potentially dangerous and certainly undesirable consequences.…Read More
RetireSecure Blog
The Pension Research Council’s curated blog features insights from the industry’s leading professionals. Views of our Guest Bloggers are theirs alone, and not of the Pension Research Council, the Wharton School, or the University of Pennsylvania.
Three Steps Toward A More Secure Retirement In A Low-return World
Though many retirement savers will be pleased with their retirement plan 2017 investment results, the outlook for market returns over the next 10-15 years remains less than inspiring. J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Anne Lester and Daniel Oldroyd discuss how to take steps towards a secure retirement in a low-return world.…Read More
Fintech’s Answer To The Global Retirement Crisis
Fintech innovators have the multi-trillion-dollar global retirement income market in their sights. An exciting example is the advent of blockchain-secured tontines as an alternative to traditional pensions and annuities.…Read More
Millennials, Engage With Your Money
Millennials – people born 1981-2001 – are a force to be reckoned with. Millennials, all 75 million of them, grew up in the midst of our country’s greatest financial crisis. The roles the Millennial generation now play – and will play – as consumers, workers, educators, and future leaders is what makes this group so interesting.…Read More
Good Advisors Will Speak Our Language
Now that I’m retired, I’m finding that my wife and I are engaging in different financial conversations with our advisors than we did earlier in life. I believe that this new perspective should drive how a successful advisor talks to us, as well as many other older couples and individuals.…Read More
A Financial Literacy Test That Works
Brokers, financial advice providers, and many others need to test peoples’ ability to manage their money. Nevertheless, there are some who debate such tests arguing that they aren’t useful for predicting behavior. But our work has confirmed that there actually IS a short and very effective diagnostic financial literacy test that can be used to measure financial know-how and predict behavior.…Read More
Relieving Pension Tension?
Some observers have recently suggested that multiemployer or industry pension plans in the U.S. have bounced back fully since the 2008 recession, and it’s time to break out the champagne. Not so fast!…Read More
Moving To The Next Step: Reboot, Rewire, Or Retire?
Many Boomers currently in their 50s, 60s, and 70s confront crucial decisions about the next steps for their careers and post-career activities. Some seek new conventional job opportunities; others want a new active life that follows a different script; and yet others choose a traditional retirement path. While younger people often have well-established ideas about career planning, those of us in later life stages are often unclear about next steps.…Read More
Planning For Success At Older Ages
Three key factors contribute to the quality of life at older ages: sound financial resources, good health, and social interactions. In-depth interviews with U.S. and Canadian older retirees as well as their adult children offer new insights into how these factors shape the lives of older people.…Read More
Do Americans Participate Enough In Retirement Plans?
Recently some analysts have queried: why do so few Americans participate in their pension plans? For this purpose, the pension participation rates, or the fraction of employees who either contribute to a defined contribution (DC) plan or are covered by a defined benefit (DB) plan, is often used as a key performance metric for the U.S. voluntary employer plan system.…Read More