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The Canadian workforce is aging. At the same time, we're facing a skills shortage. Keeping older workers on the job past 65 is an obvious solution but the federal parties are silent on the topic.
The ruling suggests there is an enduring disregard for one of the most vulnerable groups in today’s society: older women.
Several presidential hopefuls have offered proposals to close the racial wealth gap, from baby bonds to reparations. A simulation suggests policies short of direct aid to blacks won't do the trick.
A growing number of investors, policymakers and others say the US economy may be at risk of spiraling downward. A finance professor explains how to ride it out.
Attitudes to retirement can influence decisions to save and plan for it. In turn, factors such as stress or lack of interest at work can impact attitudes towards retirement.
What was once imagined as a time of exploration and reinvention has become marked by financial and emotional strain.
New research finds that people who live in areas with high unemployment in their youth are more likely to retire early.
Millennials are more financially conservative than their high debt balances might suggest.
Evidence suggests that black South Africans can and do save money -- just not for retirement.
It's never too early nor too late to start your saving program. Whether it’s an RRSP or TSFA -- or preferably both -- they are both important and easy ways to help you achieve your financial goals.
Grey nomads travel Australia because they have the desire and the means to do so. Could future generations end up following in their footsteps because they can no longer work and stay in one place?
Americans are increasingly struggling to save enough for retirement. If Social Security isn't saved, growing old in poverty will likely become more common.
Compelling Australians to put even more into super runs the risk of giving them a better standard of living in retirement than they had while working.
An ageing population doesn't have to be an economic burden.
Older men are more at risk of loneliness than woman. Feeling isolated increases the risk of anxiety and depression.
Employees and their pensions will increasingly be at the mercy of financial markets thanks to a coalition of culprits.
Tech-savvy baby boomers are driving the trend towards retirement living in high-rise city apartments.
What happens to motivated, determined and egotistical men when they are forced to abandon the White House? As John Quincy Adams once said, 'There is nothing more pathetic in life than a former president.'
Social Security will have to dip into its trust fund to pay benefits this year for the first time since 1982. Should we be worried?
Top contributors
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Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW
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Professor of Finance, University of Sydney
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts Boston
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John Daley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Chief Executive Officer, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor in the Department of Finance and co-director of the Brain, Mind & Markets Laboratory, University of Melbourne
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professorial Fellow and Deputy Director (Research), HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Finance, Monash University
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Senior Associate, Monash University
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Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute
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Adjunct Professor, Leadership Development, Concordia University
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Assistant Professor in Finance and Financial Planning, University of Canberra
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retired, University of Western Australia
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Program Director, Trade and Investment, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
