June 2022
28Jun

US. Gender gaps in retirement readiness and financial know-how persist, despite strides made by women in last 50 years

Despite the economic and professional gains made by women over the last 50 years, gender gaps persist — and not just in rate of pay. Retirement readiness and financial know-how are key areas with notable gaps, according to two studies recently released by the TIAA Institute. For example, among workers in TIAA’s system, men contributed a median $8,271 to their workplace retirement plan in 2020, compared with $5,994 for women. While that 27% gap is less than the 34% difference...

June 28, 2022
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17Jun

LGBT CEOs and stock returns: Diagnosing rainbow ceilings and cliffs

By Savva Shanaev, Arina Skorochodova & Mikhail Vasenin This study is the first to investigate the implications of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender chief executive officers (LGBT CEOs) for stock performance, using an exhaustive sample of 26 LGBT publicly listed company CEOs since 2000 to document statistically and economically significant financial outperformance of LGBT-led firms. Stocks of companies with openly LGBT CEOs generate a monthly alpha of 0.69%-1.08%, robust to portfolio weighting schemes, estimation frequency, multi-factor asset-pricing models, factor multicollinearity,...

June 17, 2022
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17Jun

Aussie aged pensioners call for opportunity to work more hours

A growing number of Aussie seniors still working after retirement age are calling for the opportunity to work more hours without being penalised for it. A group of pensioners have told A Current Affair they're willing to help fill Australia's labour void, but the problem is that if they work too many hours, it will affect their pension. "If I work an hour over my 30 hours a fortnight, it changes my pension quite a bit," dementia specialist and senior Betty...

June 17, 2022
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01Jun

25% of Americans are delaying retirement due to inflation, survey finds

Americans’ finances are being squeezed as inflation pushes up prices on things such as rent, groceries and gasoline. As a result, one-quarter of Americans will have to delay their retirement, according to the BMO Real Financial Progress Index, a quarterly survey conducted between March 30 and April 25. Putting off retirement plans is mostly due to disrupted savings from increased prices, the survey found. Thirty-six percent of survey respondents have reduced their savings and 21% are putting away less for retirement...

June 1, 2022
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May 2022
20May

UK. People with disabilities ‘have pension savings worth third of average pot’

Pension savers with disabilities typically have savings worth only around a third of the average pot as they approach retirement, a study has found. People aged 60 to 64 with a disability have £47,980 saved on average, according to research by the Pensions Policy Institute. This is only around 36% of the average UK pension pot size of £130,928 – a difference of nearly £83,000. The research was commissioned by pension provider NOW: Pensions, which said there are just over four million...

May 20, 2022
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04May

Luxembourg. Number working beyond retirement age doubles in decade

The number of people continuing to work beyond retirement age in Luxembourg has doubled in the last decade, according to figures released in response to a parliamentary question on Monday, after reforms aimed at incentivising older workers to stay in the labour market. Luxembourg's official retirement age is 65, but people can take early retirement at 57 or 60, depending on their level of contributions. The number of people continuing to work after receiving pension payments increased sharply in both...

May 4, 2022
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April 2022
19Apr

China may see negative population growth in 2022, 12 years earlier than UN prediction: experts

Experts said that population aging may lead China to count more deaths than births in 2022, 12 years earlier than the UN predicted. They suggested boosting commercial insurance to support the elderly given the current inadequate old age welfare system. Chinese people aged over 65 have surpassed 14% of the total population in 2021, which is an important indicator and means the country has formally become an aged society, said Zheng Bingwen, director of the Center for International Social Security...

April 19, 2022
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07Apr

The economy-wide effects of mandating private retirement incomes

By George Kudrna This paper investigates the economy-wide effects of mandating private (employment-related) pensions. It draws on the Australian experience with its Superannuation Guarantee legislation which mandates contributions to private retirement (superannuation) accounts. Our key objective is to quantify the long-run implications of alternative mandatory superannuation contribution rates for household economic decisions over the life cycle, household welfare, and macroeconomic and fiscal aggregates. To that end, we develop a stochastic, overlapping generations (OLG) model with labor choice and endogenous retirement,...

April 7, 2022
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Why Society Needs To Change How We Think About Aging
01Apr

Why Society Needs To Change How We Think About Aging

With the Age Discrimination in Employment Act coming into force back in 1967, the notion of age discrimination has a long history. Unfortunately, it’s an issue that we still grapple with today, and whereas it’s easy to assume it’s only a problem for those in and around retirement age, a survey from Senior Living suggests it can kick in as early as our 40s. The research, which saw over 1,100 Americans over 40 years of age quizzed about their workplace...

April 1, 2022
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March 2022
31Mar

UK. Flexi-retirement increasingly common due to gig economy

Flexi-retirement is becoming increasingly common, as more and more retirees are opting to work part-time in the gig economy. According to a new report from Abrdn, two thirds of people retiring in 2022 do not plan on giving up work completely. This compares to just over half of those who retired in 2021 and a third of 2020 retirees. The report, which surveyed 2,000 UK adults, reveals how the “class of 2022” plan to spend their and money in retirement. A quarter said...

March 31, 2022
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