Sentences with phrase «older people approaching retirement»

This reflects a fundamental idea that younger people can take on more investment risk for potential gain, while older people approaching retirement should protect their principal by converting some volatile growth - oriented stock investments to more stable fixed - income securities.

Not exact matches

Following the investing guideline that portfolio risk should decrease — although not too fast — as a person approaches retirement, let's assume ex-ante portfolio risk of roughly 11 percent for the 50 year old, 9.5 percent for the 55 year old and slightly below 8 percent for the 60 year old.

Mr Billson said the government wanted to make independent contractors «more highly visible in the broader economic narrative» and to play a greater role in allowing older people to change from being full - time employees to part - time contractors as they approached retirement.

Following the investing guideline that portfolio risk should decrease — although not too fast — as a person approaches retirement, let's assume ex-ante portfolio risk of roughly 11 percent for the 50 year old, 9.5 percent for the 55 year old and slightly below 8 percent for the 60 year old.

So what about at the other end of the spectrum then, are you seeing more and more people who are older or either approaching retirement, already retired, what kind of scenarios do you see there?

First, the majority of people that would benefit from this approach are older and have less time before their retirement accounts need to be more protected from volatility anyway.