Retirements Quotes

By the time you`re 50, most people have something wrong, ... The vast majority of these retirements are documented and justified - by and large, they come with the nature of the work.

I would like to thank Adair Turner and his fellow commissioners for their thorough analysis of this important issue. The Commission has had a hard look at the pension system in the UK, and has set out the stark challenges we all face in providing for increasingly long retirements. This report brings home the message the Government first highlighted in the 2002 Green Paper; that people must either save more or work longer.

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.