| Porthole 26 Aug 22

ONE of the biggest surprises Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection President & CEO Ellen Bettridge received on her trip to Australia was the statistic on how early we retire compared to our American friends.

Referencing the Australian travel advisors who chose to retire during the pandemic rather than keep their business afloat, Bettridge was stunned to learn that many of them were in their 50s – an unthinkable age to hang up your keyboard in the United States.

“I can’t believe it the stuff I was reading, like who will retire at 55…I heard that the average retirement age in Australia is 56 years old,” Bettridge gasped.

“That blew me away!”

Unfortunately, that metric may have increased given the hit our collective superannuation took.