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NEW YORK, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent national study monitoring the attitudes of Baby Boomers, marketers may be making fatal flaws in their assumptions about this large and important market segment. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120717/NY39536 ) The market research study, conducted by Applied Research & Consulting (www.arcllc.com) in conjunction with the advertising agency Under The Radar (www.undertheradarltd.com), identifies 6 costly...
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In a survey of still-working adults age 55 and older, the majority of the respondents say they are not delaying retirement and believe they will be financially prepared to retire when the time comes. PulteGroup is the parent company of Del Webb -the leading brand of active adult retirement communities - and has been surveying the 55 and older demographic for more than 15 years, seeking to better understand the...
IntelliQuote, a highly rated online life insurance agency, proudly assists a growing community of baby boomers as they prepare for retirement; closing gaps in their retirement plans through life insurance protection. El Dorado Hills, Calif. (PRWEB) June 12, 2012 Acclaimed life insurance agency IntelliQuote, is proud to help baby boomers as they prepare for retirement. The current economic climate has left many baby boomers in financial turmoil, facing gaps in their retirement plans; a...
Website http://www.welcomingretirement.com/ offers free retirement readiness assessment to help retiring Baby Boomers who want to renew, reinvent, and re-career for the best time of their life. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) June 02, 2012 When Baby Boomers retire from their full time work world, they leave behind their familiar identity, structure and community. As a Retirement Coach, Janice Williams provides a free retirement readiness assessment at http://www.welcomingretirement.com/ to help...
DUBLIN, Ohio, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The long-awaited turnaround in the housing market may finally be underway, at least in the Active Adult segment, if data provided by Epcon Communities are any indication. Epcon Communities, a leading homebuilding and land development franchise operator based in Dublin, Ohio, has released data that show a significant uptick in homebuilding and home buying activity in recent months, and even greater growth since the beginning of 2012 alone....
STUDY FINDS YOUNG LATINOS ARE MOST OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE STATE SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- California's millennials like living in California, trust its government and education system, and are highly optimistic about its future, according to a survey released today by California Forward (CA Fwd). The survey examined the perspectives and attitudes of Californians on public policy matters. The results from the millennials, defined in this survey as...
Connie K. Ho for RedOrbit.com Shocking new statistics from Bowling Green State University’s National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) shows that baby boomers will have a difficult time as they grow older. The study combines data from the censuses of 1980, 1990, 2000 as well as the 2009 American Community Survey. Through this research, Dr. I-Fen Lin found that one-third of adults between the ages of 45 and 63 are unmarried. This number has more than doubled since 1980,...
Nick and Bobbi Ercoline, the couple depicted on the “Woodstock” soundtrack album cover, have now been happily married for over 40 years. However, a new special issue of The Gerontologist showing the Ercolines as they look today — a portrait of successful aging — finds that their unmarried baby boomer counterparts generally fare much poorer in terms of economic, health, and social outcomes. In 2011, the first of the 79 million American baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964)...
NEW YORK, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study from local market consumer research firm Scarborough reveals that Baby Boomers*, making up 35% of the U.S. adult population (81M), are living up to their revolutionary legacy, showing the nation that their heyday is far from over by taking pleasure in life's adventures. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090514/NY17046LOGO ) Baby Boomers are spending their time out on the town. In the past 12 months Baby Boomers have...
A new national study suggests that adults who receive an inheritance save only about half of what they receive, while spending, donating or losing the rest. The results are good news for retailers, restaurant owners and people in the service industry who will receive that windfall. But it is bad news for those who are concerned about the low U.S. savings rate, said Jay Zagorsky, author of the study and research scientist at Ohio State University’s Center for Human Resource Research....
