HSBC Insurance’s fourth annual The Future of Retirement study, undertaken by Oxford University’s Institute of Ageing, with Dr George Leeson as its PI, focuses on how people from across the world are preparing for retirement and examines four key themes – Expectations and Choice, Preparedness and Inheritance. The research report, entitled, Investing in Later Life and conducted among 21,000 people in 21 countries, is the largest of its kind in the world. The launch took place in London on 13 May 2008.