Canadian Personal Finance Blog

Our buddy over at the Canadian Capitalist asked the lyrical question about whether WHEN the baby boomers retire, will it cause the financial markets to crash because they will all be sucking their money out of them to live on.

That’s a good question, but here is a better question, are we actually going to retire? The “Baby Boomer” generation and the generation before it may well be the only two generations to retire. My Dad retired, but before that most people died before they reached retirement age. All these baby boomers have all this money put away (or do they? we’ll only know in a few more years) and think they will retire. I am a little more pragmatic, will I retire? I don’t know. I have dreams of retiring NOW while I can really enjoy things, but will I have enough money to retire at 65? Will CPP exist then? Will my pension from my employer still be solvent? Will my debts be low enough that I can retire? Will I be doing something by then that I want to STOP doing? All very good questions to think about.

Don’t assume you will retire, but plan like you want to is all the advice I can give right now.