{"id":601282,"date":"2026-04-13T13:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/601282\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:56:08","slug":"2026-dc-plan-summit-reimagining-workplace-retirement-and-financial-resilience-for-gen-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/601282\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 DC Plan Summit: Reimagining workplace retirement and financial resilience for gen Z"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read: 2025 DC Plan Summit: Understanding the modern mindset for DC plan member engagement<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why, over the course of the last six months, we pushed beyond observation into original investigation, capturing fresh data, lived experiences and behavioural signals that reveal how gen Zs are actually feeling.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The research asked 2,000 Canadian respondents for their perception on the impact of existential risk. \u201cThat\u2019s catastrophe,\u201d said Kelly Peters (pictured left), a partner and global behavioural economics leader at Deloitte Canada, during the session. \u201cThat\u2019s wiping out the human species because of climate change and geopolitical instability.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Across all respondents, 11 per cent believed the timeline for this event will be before they retire, while one in five said it will happen within the next 100 years. Looking at financial behaviour, said Peters, demand for long-term financial savings products would go down about 16 per cent. However, the research created a product called the Doomsday Resilience Fund, with eight per cent of respondents saying they\u2019d put some money into that for their retirement.\n<\/p>\n

Read: Fewer millennials, gen Z employees on track to save for retirement: survey<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

The research offers an opportunity to talk about resilience, said Peters, not just individually, but as a society, which creates a foundation for hope. \u201cIt means . . . connecting the dots between people having that anxiety and engaging them in the solution \u2014 that long-term retirement savings is not just investment in your retirement, but an investment in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

This lays the groundwork for focusing on three areas for gen Z, said Nazar, including getting them started, building their trust and turning their worries. \u201cWe\u2019re completing focus groups as we speak,\u201d she added, noting this feedback, along with the research results and behavioural economics, will be used to create a gen Z toolkit for the pension industry to use.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our calling \u2014 to turn what we\u2019ve learned here into real impact and to stand beside a generation that needs our leadership as they build the financial and emotional resilience to thrive in an unpredictable future.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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