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...The consultants aim to cut staff numbers by not replacing many in the baby-boomer generation who will retire over the next four years....
...Demographics are also on its side as baby boomers splurge on cruises. Yet despite the impressive run, only Royal Caribbean is near its pre-pandemic high....
...There was no shortage of grey-bearded, grey-ponytailed, tattoo-adorned boomers, the traditional Harley owners. But there were also plenty of millennials — or younger....
...We need to work out how to get the balance right between the Zoomer-style coddling and the Boomer-style stiff upper lip — that’s tricky....
...As more ageing baby boomers retire, they will boost their leisure spending. At the same time, some millennials are switching to the van life to dodge high housing costs....
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...“A boomer article for boomer readers,” one unhappy customer said of yesterday’s letter about the crypto exchanges....
...Rushfield points out that although Hollywood is still run by Boomers, the new breed of writers, directors and producers are just sidestepping the old guard to do things their own way....
...Founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield came of age during the 1960s, part of “a diaspora of baby boomers who converged on Burlington in search of euphoria”, according to Brad Edmondson’s history of the...
...At the same time, much of that money will be up for grabs as part of what is often projected to be “greatest transfer of wealth in history”, or the passing of assets from Baby Boomers to the next generation...
...“Advice is really in the early innings, the need will keep growing as baby boomers retire and millennials face new challenges in their objective of saving for the long term.”...
...If Buffett triumphed, the money would go to Girls Inc. Initially, it looked like Buffett would have to eat some humble pie....
...Almost 80 per cent received advice, compared with 60 per cent of Baby Boomers and 64 per cent of Gen X investors. The GameStop spike acted as a spur to the youngest aspiring investors....
...So one message to crypto kids is this: don’t assume that the finance world’s “boomers” are dead yet. Big banks may not strut publicly as they did pre-2008. In today’s world, though, that is wise....
...Home is a windowless space adjoining a factory called Bubbles Inc, causing raspberry-pink foam to drip down the walls....
...executive vice-president of merchandising at Home Depot, said there had been “questions for years” about whether DIY would ever be as popular among millennials and Generation Xers as it was among baby boomers...
...Working with writer Amy Wallace, who also rode shotgun on Ed Catmull’s candid account of the evolution of Pixar, Creativity, Inc., Immelt also offers some frank admissions of error....
...That is, the baby boomers who make up an outsize share of the beneficiaries of pension funds that are private equity’s biggest customers....
...Hog-riding baby boomers there are ageing fast and making fewer purchases. The problem for Harley is young people do not have the spending power — or the interest — to make up for that decline....
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...Much hand-wringing has been done by Boomers and Generation X-ers over this adolescent generation. We worry about the Covid-sized dent in their learning....
...Ageing baby boomers are as inclined to book a cruise as they once were to hitchhike to Kathmandu. For newly-prosperous Asians, cruising is an unthreatening way to sample the novelty of foreign travel....
...(I guess many Financial Times readers might feel the same way if they are also members of Generation X or boomers.)...
...Smart reads Boomers going bust Elderly bankruptcy is on the rise in America....
...We all know the younger generations — such as Gen Z — lack the wealth to purchase a house like the Baby Boomers did, which has led to a rise in a “renter’s economy”....
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