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How to Retire With More Money in Your Pocket- Infographic
Always wanted to know how to retire and be financially secure? Now you can with our infographic "How to Retire With More Money in Your Pocket" which details how to maximise your savings right through to the top spots to retire.The World’s Greatest Fears, An Infographic
As a life insurance company, we insure people every day to alleviate their fears that should anything happen to them, their loved ones will be taken care of. This infographic on ‘The World’s Greatest Fears’ covers the top perceived threats by continent, the five key takeaways from analysing those threats, the top five countries with the highest level of fears, the growth rate of global fears from 2007 through to 2014, plus the variations in age and ideological differences in perceptions of fear.Why Running a Company is the New Retirement, An Infographic
We hear so much about 20 something technology millionaires in this age of social media and 24/7 news cycles, but the success of those in the older generation are sometimes overlooked. The 55 to 64 year old category has the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity in the past decade. Look at some of the Fortune 500 companies and some of the biggest business names in the world - Warren Buffet (84) and Rupert Murdoch (83) to name some of the best known, are still in control of the companies of which they founded.Entrepreneurship, The New Retirement, Ireland Vs. USA
At its most basic level, an Entrepreneur is an individual who organises and manages any enterprise with considerable initiative and risk. Typically, when modern society depicts an Entrepreneur, one of the first characteristics that it portrays is youth. But not everyone is 19 in a Harvard dorm room one day and becomes the world’s youngest billionaire 4 years later. For every teenage Zuckerberg and his Facebook, there is an over 50’s Pemberton and his French Wine Coca, or as the world knows it today, Coca-Cola. Older Entrepreneurship USA Vs. Ireland The highest rate of entrepreneurial activity in the past 10 years in the USA has been among 55 to 64 year olds. More than 1 in 3 new businesses were started by an Entrepreneur aged 50 plus....Living Life Off the Ledge
Of the top ten deadliest jobs in the USA, being a lumberjack or logger is the deadliest for fatalities per 100,000 full time workers. Fishermen and those working in the fisheries industry come in second, after being first for several years, followed by Aircraft Pilots and Flight Engineers in third place. This is all according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. When we look at the gender rates of job fatalities, an overwhelming 92% of job fatalities that occur are male with only 8% female. The highest area of job fatalities within an industry is transportation incidents at 41% and the largest age demographic for job fatality occurs between 45 to 54 year olds. In contrast, some of the safest employm...