The reality of retirement

Your financial expectations may not be met if you put off contributing to a pension fund

What sort of retirement actually lies ahead for you?

What sort of retirement would you like? For most of us, the dream involves a comfortable lifestyle, minimal financial worries, good health and the odd treat, after many years hard at work.

But before you get carried away in a daydream, what sort of retirement actually lies ahead for you? For many Irish people, there’s a gap between their expectation of retirement and the sort of retirement they are likely to have, based ...