Talking Points

Reported by PLANADVISER Staff

Do You Want to Live to 100?

The main reason people gave for wanting to join the centenarian club was to spend more time with family and friends. Some said they’d turn down living that long if they had to suffer terrible health.

Gen Z
72%
Millennials
74%
Gen X
67%
Boomers
62%
Silent Gen
74%
Source: Edward Jones/Age Wave/The Harris Poll, “Longevity and the New Journey of Retirement”

Back to Work

In May, after rising steadily since January, the rate of unretirement—a return to the workforce among those who had reported being retired—reached its highest level in more than a decade.

Source: The New School Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, “Older Workers Report”

Young Investors Raid Their Savings to pay for School

Of the 49% of investors under age 34 who said they’ve taken money from their 401(k) or individual retirement account, 20% said it was to finance education; 19% blamed a medical emergency.

Source: E*Trade from Morgan Stanley