The seventh annual Aegon Retirement Readiness Survey draws on findings from workers and retirees from 15 countries spanning Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia. The 2018 report finds that the “social contract” for retirement is crumbling, and almost half of today’s workers and retirees believe that future generations of retirees will be worse off. The…

According to this new report from the Gerontological Society of America and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, older Americans — growing in numbers and diversity — will be key to the nation’s future economic health, but the public and private sectors must adapt to these demographic realities. The report aims to stimulate a policy conversation on…

In October 2017, GCOA launched the Remote Care Delivery initiative, which aims to leverage and mobilize cross-sector expertise to advance the uptake of RCD as a driver of healthy, active, and productive aging, and to encourage action at the global policy level. RCD includes videoconferencing with healthcare providers, tablet-based patient education, and devices that can prompt and track diet,…

This Bank of America Merrill Lynch report, conducted in partnership with Age Wave, takes an in-depth look at women’s financial journeys over their lifetimes. Women face different and financially complex life journeys than men. These differences are due to factors that include caregiving, higher healthcare costs, and longer lifespans. The report finds that while women live…

Breaking the stereotype often portrayed on TV and in the media of LGBT couples leading glamorous and expensive lifestyles; recent research from the Aegon Center for Longevity and Retirement shows that LGBT households fall behind their heterosexual counterparts across the board when it comes to earning power.