No Country for Old Men
by: Dick Stroud There is a very interesting article in today’s Guardian about the plight of older men, living alone. It is based on research from Help the Aged.The bottom line facts/conclusions are: In...
View ArticleOverdoing Worldwide Boomer Gloom
by: Dick StroudSitting in Kyoto gives you a different perspective on the world. It is all too easy to become insular and only take a UK perspective. Right now, wherever I look, it seems the world’s...
View ArticleThe Twilight Generation
Five years ago I identified a cohort of older people I called the Charmed Generation. A combination of final salary personal pensions, house price inflation, lack of debt and inherited money from their...
View Article1% Makes a Lot of Difference
A report has just been published in the US called the: “The Potential Impact of the Great Recession on Future Retirement Incomes.” I really wished we had an institution attempting the same type of...
View ArticleWhat about the Unknown Unknowns?
The much vilified ex-Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld will probably be best remembered for his comment to journalists about known and unknowns. There are known knowns. There are things we know we...
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