News from March, 2011

Thank you to all of you who voted to update our caucus name to Encore. It is now officially changed.

82.5% agreed we needed to refresh our name. To see the results of the survey monkey vote done last month, please click on:
<a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LQKRDQH" Survey Monkey Results on Name Change</a>

Join us at our annual meeting in Philadelphia on Tuesday June 14th from 10-11 am, to hear Stephen Abram address us: The New Retiree: Connected and Social: Stereotypes of retirees are rarely, if ever, true. Stephen Abram, contributing author to the book Boomers & Beyond (ALA Editions 2010), will share some of the expected changes in the post, post WW2 generation retired cohort. What technologies do they prefer - or not? What information and reading choices will they or are they making? What are the opportunities for a full and long retirement?

Following his talk,11:00-11:30 am we will convene a business meeting with the following agenda (please advise if you have items to add):
-discuss the WordPress evolution (or status of our wiki)
-discuss options for program and meeting for June 2012 (Lynne McCay)
-review (based on the survey done this year) the intentionality of the group for activities (Susan Fifer Canby)
-finance report (Ty Webb)
-review state of membership and strategy for incorporating more retiring or retired members
-mentoring potential (Sharon Lenius)

Retirement Confidence Survey 2011

The 2011 Retirement Confidence Survey: Confidence Drops to Record Lows, Reflecting "the New Normal"

http://www.ebri.org/publications/ib/index.cfm?fa=ibDisp&content_id=4772

The 2011 Retirement Confidence Survey: Confidence Drops to Record Lows, Reflecting "the New Normal", by Ruth Helman, Mathew Greenwald & Associates, and Craig Copeland and Jack VanDerhei, Employee Benefit Research Institute, March 2011"The 21st wave of the Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS) finds that Americans' confidence in their ability to afford a comfortable retirement has plunged to a new low at the same time that the recent declines in other retirement confidence indicators appear to be stabilizing. Instead of making fundamental adjustments to their spending and saving patterns in response to the decline in confidence, workers continue to change their expectations about how they will transition from work to retirement in what has been called an age of "the new normal."

Source:  beSpacific Mar 15, 2011

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Friday, March 25, 2011