Hong Kong’s pressing demographic challenges demand tailored, well-considered civil service policies. However, the proposal put forward in recent Legislative Council debates on population policy to raise the retirement age for all civil servants to 65 offers no viable solution to these issues. This one-size-fits-all approach overlooks the civil service’s flexible retirement frameworks and works against…
Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images Moneywise and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue through links in the content below. In 2024, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink caused a stir when he encouraged Americans to keep working past age 65. The billionaire, who chairs the world’s largest asset manager, kicked off his annual letter…
Over the years, the state pension age in the UK has changed several times, to coincide with the increase in life expectancy and to ensure fiscal sustainability. The age was 60 for women and 65 for men between 1948 and 2010, after which point the state pension age for both men and women became 65….