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February 25, 2005 at 07:00 PM
Americans born between 1946 and 1964 may have good ideas about how to stretch their retirement savings.[@@]
Many public policy experts assume that a high percentage of baby boomers will leave the work force entirely by the time they reach age 65.
But researchers at Merrill Lynch & Company Inc., New York, and Ken Dychtwald, a gerontologist who helped the Merrill Lynch researchers analyze results from a recent survey of 3,448 U.S. boomers, say the boomers themselves seem to have a much more flexible views about “retirement.”
Many boomers understand that they are “living younger longer” and hope to continue to work well past age 65, and that may mean boomers will not have to tap retirement savings until much later in their lives, according to Michael Falcon, chief operating officer at the Merrill Lynch retirement unit.
