Visions of the Golden Years Dim As Pension Promises Fade
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By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe  Sep. 17--ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. -- After the collapse of Digital Equipment  Corp. cost him a 16-year career, Larry Millette started over, taking an  entry-level factory job at the IBM plant in this Vermont village.   The pay wasn't great.
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NEW YORK - The corporate pension crisis seems to be going from bad to worse. First, companies struggled to come up with the money to cover their benefit obligations, and now they want to ditch their plans altogether.
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The decline of passive retirement planning is not so much a problem as an opportunity.
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TOKYO - Retirement comes in January. That's when Katsunori Hamahara turns 65, when his government pension kicks in, and when he will be able to afford a place to live.
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More thoughts on the ups and downs of this retirement-savings option.
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Money is running out for some local governments who use pension funds to help pay for retired workersâ health care.
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The telecom company cuts medical benefits for its retirees.
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If you spend time looking back, you'll miss what's coming up.
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Work longer, save more, pay higher taxes or accept poverty in old age. That is the blunt message delivered by the long-awaited report of the Pensions Commission into Britainâs yawning pensions crisis.
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With just eight years to go, Steve Derebey had been eyeing his mandatory retirement age with something close to relief.
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Many companies are dropping their promise of health benefits for future retirees, who now might have to stay on the job longer and rely on government health care in their old age.
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Employers have reneged on their promise to share the pensions burden with workers, the TUC says.
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As older baby boomers leave the work force and younger workers move into senior management, the workday is becoming much less rigidly defined.
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Don't waste too much time mulling  over those retirement rules of thumb that seem to pop up  everywhere. They've never been very useful, but changes in the  way people live and work make them even less so.
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WASHINGTON -- People once again spent everything they made and then some last year, pushing the personal savings rate to the lowest level since the Great Depression more than seven decades ago.
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Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill yesterday released results for the 103 venture capital funds the state pension plan invested in from 1986 through 1998, which ranged from a searing 127 percent annual gain to a dismal 46 percent annual decline.
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Nearly a quarter of people fail to save anything for their retirement, a survey from Scottish Widows suggests.