Never too old to be your own bossThe ‘older and wiser’ cliché has a lot of truth in it, with retirees being the biggest group of entrepreneurs in the business world. WSJ profiles the older entrepreneurs who realise their peers are their ideal target market.
Retirement
Thoughts after an Association of Superannuation Funds Australia lunch
If the Government raise compulsory super contributions from 9% to 12%, it will simply subsidise higher income earners’ retirement by foregoing taxes at a ridiculously high level and overtaxing those on lower incomes.
Why should priests retire at 75?
Despite dwindling numbers of priests, the Catholic Church refuses to retain influential men of the cloth with wide appeal, like Father Bob Maguire, once they reach 75, writes Crikey intern James Pattison.
The end of retirement?
As humans live longer and longer, and the Boomer generation begin to enter their twilight yeats, the whole idea of retirement is increasingly becoming an anachronism.
Wilson Tuckey, 543, defends older MPs
We are urged by anonymous business leaders to replace older and more experienced MPs with those of a younger age. What rot, says Wilson Tuckey, federal member for O’Connor.
