One question I had, though, about this experiment, was whether these behavior changes were simply the result of retirement from work.
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Sure there is lots of talk from those who plan to work in retirement that a life of golf outings and beach days would simply be interminably boring.
Even his decision to reverse by decree Mr Sarkozy's raising of the retirement age from 60 to 62 for those who started work young has gone unchallenged, since he campaigned for it.
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Analysis by John Ralfe shows that the improvements in the benefits given to civil servants, teachers and healthworkers at the higher retirement age offset the reduction in costs for the Exchequer from forcing them to work an extra seven years.
The IRS has a withholding calculator that can help you determine the correct amount, (click here.) If you make an adjustment, be sure to capture the increase in your paycheck and put those dollars to the best use, whether it is setting up an automatic transfer from a checking to a savings account or increasing your retirement plan at work.
Up until the start of the Great Recession, our typical startup client was an individual who had taken or was about to take an orderly retirement from the corporate world, had a good ideae, a hankering to do work they love and had some investment money to get started.
But the real gains in happiness from retirement go not to the outshone, but to the out-of-work.
In Forbes, we wrote about why long-term investors might want to think twice before investing in gold (whether the metal itself or stocks from gold mining companies), how to push for a better retirement plan at work and how to avoid costly mistakes in your Individual Retirement Account.
Dietrich is long-term bullish in the markets, providing Washington does the hard work of reforming entitlement programs, including raising the retirement age to around 68 from 65.
He took voluntary retirement from his job in 2006 and set up an NGO - Public Cause Research Foundation - to work full time to promote transparency in government and to create awareness about the Right to Information movement.
"I meant to work here until my retirement, " says Masahiro Yoshino, 48, riding a bus from the Nissan plant that makes hatchbacks in the Tokyo suburb of Murayama, one of the factories Nissan plans to shutter.
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