FIM 2017 Retirement Symposium

What is Retirement?

• The point where a person stops employment completely • May come by way of age – 55, 60, 62, 65 • Or forced early through physical disability • Some may semi-retire by reducing working hours or engaging is less stressful work • For financial reasons (eg. No pension or Social Security) many people continue working until death in order to sustain themselves. • Greater wealth leads to earlier retirement