Research: The unpredictability of retirement; Understanding retirement: An NAPF research programme

The first phase in the NAPF Understanding Retirement series examines the attitudes to retirement of the recently or soon-to-be retired

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Phase One of the research examined the expectations and the reality of retirement today for those recently retired and those coming up to retirement in the next 20 years; essentially the generation of ‘baby boomers’ born between 1946 and 1965. It considers, among others, the following questions:

To what extent are the expected changes in retirement evident today?
What are the triggers and barriers driving retirement decisions?
How is retirement being experienced – the good, the bad, the indifferent?
How is pension provision (and other investments and savings) shaping retirement
expectations and experiences?
What are those hoping to retire in the near future expecting from retirement and their
pensions?