{"id":713947,"date":"2026-06-04T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/713947\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:30:13","slug":"how-to-boost-your-odds-of-retiring-comfortably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/713947\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Boost Your Odds of Retiring Comfortably"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Welcome to the award-winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/account\/newsletters\/money-distilled?source=NLintro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Money Distilled<\/a> newsletter. I\u2019m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/authors\/AV8F0VYKcHY\/john-stepek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">John Stepek<\/a>. Every week day I look at the biggest stories in markets and economics, and explain what it all means for your money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">How much money do you need for a comfortable retirement? The latest estimates are out from industry body Pensions UK. According to its annual Retirement Living Standards report, it would cost an individual \u00a345,400 a year to be \u201ccomfortable,\u201d or \u00a362,700 for a two-person household.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the award-winning Money Distilled newsletter. I\u2019m John Stepek. Every week day I look at the biggest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,151,10446,548,133,893,135,124,890,131,132,995,125,127,1822],"class_list":["post-713947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-career","tag-christmas","tag-economics","tag-finance","tag-government","tag-inflation","tag-jobs","tag-lifestyle","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-regulation","tag-unemployment","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}