Adrian Boulding: Helping Gen X clients boost 'bleak' pension prospects

'Many Gen Xers await a bleak financial future'

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Adrian Boulding looks at the retirement prospects of Generation X in his latest article for PA. Here he outlines why now is the time to make much-needed ad hoc contributions and urges savers not to get distracted in the pursuit of value for money...

Catching up on some reading over the break, I spotted the new International Longevity Centre's (ILC) study entitled Forgotten Generation? Retirement Income Prospects of Generation X.  The ILC's summary of findings chimes closely with Dunstan Thomas' own consumer study of Generation Xers' retirement prospects which we published back in June 2020 which was referenced in the ILC report. The ILC found: "Many Gen Xers await a bleak financial future. At least one in three - or 4.3 million - are at risk of retirement with incomes that would result in minimum standards of living due to inadeq...

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