Kerry Hannon: What Gen Xers Need to Know About Their Retirement Plans

The Long View

Morningstar

Finance, Dan Lefkovitz, Amy Arnott, Entrepreneurship, Investing Leaders, Jeff Ptak, Investors, Christine Benz, Influential Investors, Careers, Long-term Investing, Financial Services, Business, Investing, Morningstar

4.5 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The author and ‘workplace futurist’ discusses how people born between 1965-80 can improve their retirement wherewithal, the viability of Social Security for this generation, and the benefits and limitations of working longer.

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0:36.1	Hi and welcome to the Longview.
0:38.3	I'm Amy Arnaut, portfolio strategist for Morning Star.
0:42.3	And I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning for Morning Star.
0:46.3	Our guest on the podcast today is Carrie Hannan.
0:50.3	Carrie is a senior columnist and on-air expert for Yahoo Finance and writes about retirement,
0:56.0	jobs, career transitions, entrepreneurship, leadership, and personal finance.
1:01.9	She's written 14 books about retirement, careers, and personal finance, and is co-author
1:06.7	of a new book, Retirement Bites, a Gen X guide to securing your financial future.
1:12.7	Carrie is a former columnist and contributor for the New York Times, Market Watch, Forbes, PBS, and AARP.
1:20.6	She graduated from Duke University.
1:23.8	Carrie, welcome to the Longview.
1:26.4	Oh, terrific to be here. Thanks for the invitation.
1:29.3	Well, we're glad you could join us.
1:31.3	You're a very prolific writer and you've written 14 other books in addition to your regular job at Yahoo Finance.
1:39.3	Why did you decide to write a book focusing on retirement issues for Gen X? And I guess we should
1:46.6	specify at the beginning that that kind of spans the range of people born between 1965 and
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