{"id":8762,"date":"2015-06-03T06:41:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T11:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8762"},"modified":"2015-06-03T06:41:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T11:41:16","slug":"younger-workers-more-likely-to-see-less-income-in-retirement-cibc-says-average-person-born-in-80s-and-after-may-see-only-70-of-pre-retirement-income-economist-benjamin-tal-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8762","title":{"rendered":"Younger workers more likely to see less income in retirement, CIBC says Average person born in &#8217;80s and after may see only 70% of pre-retirement income, economist Benjamin Tal says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-headline\">\n<h3 class=\"story-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/younger-workers-more-likely-to-see-less-income-in-retirement-cibc-says-1.3096955\" target=\"_blank\">Younger workers more likely to see less income in retirement, CIBC says<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-deck\"><strong>Average person born in &#8217;80s and after may see only 70% of pre-retirement income, economist Benjamin Tal says<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Urgent attention needs to be given to what Canadians can expect to get in retirement income \u2014\u00a0something that&#8217;s become a real divide along generational lines, a prominent Canadian economist says.<\/p>\n<p>In a note to clients this week, Benjamin Tal at CIBC waded into the ongoing debate over Canada&#8217;s looming pension and retirement crisis.<\/p>\n<p>While falling well short of endorsing any of the myriad proposals out there to fix the problem, including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/cpp-plan-won-t-help-savers-or-stop-the-pension-crisis-don-pittis-1.3089335\">beefing up the Canada Pension Plan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/doubling-tfsa-limit-will-only-help-wealthy-study-argues-1.2967796\">encouraging more individual savings by expanding RRSPs and TFSAs<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/ontario-votes-2014\/ontario-s-retirement-pension-plan-how-would-it-work-1.2633448\">something else<\/a>, Tal is unequivocal in his view that declining retirement income\u00a0is a problem needing a\u00a0solution \u2014 and soon.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/cpp-plan-won-t-help-savers-or-stop-the-pension-crisis-don-pittis-1.3089335\">DON PITTIS: Expanding CPP won&#8217;t fix Canada&#8217;s pension problem<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After running a simulation of pension income across a wide variety of age ranges, Tal found a clear deliniation between those in retirement now or approaching it, and those who won&#8217;t get there for several years or decades.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s economy, few people rely on any one source of\u00a0retirement income, with most people drawing on a combination of their own investments such as RRSPs, TFSAs and real estate, government programs such as CPP and things like pension plans that they may have accrued from employers over a lifetime of work.<\/p>\n<p>In general, Tal says,\u00a0&#8220;the typical 70-year-old today has enough income to maintain his or her pre-retirement standard of living, taking into account the typical drop in expenses in one&#8217;s post-working years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Generational gap<\/h2>\n<p>But while millions of Canadians 65 and up\u00a0are on a path to the retirement of their dreams, the data show that millions of others are headed for a steep decline in living standards in the decades ahead, particularly people who are\u00a0younger and are in middle-income brackets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Younger workers more likely to see less income in retirement, CIBC says Average person born in &#8217;80s and after may see only 70% of pre-retirement income, 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