Retirement is Just the Beginning, or

How the Phoenix Syndicates Stand to Gain from the Coming Wave of Baby Boomers and their Support Staff

The world's population is ageing. We can't stop it happening, but we can use the knowledge to plan effectively for our own future.

More retired people means more need for support. Increased need, together with the ability to pay, means more support jobs. Follow the money: it's with the over 50s and in effect they're spending it on support staff - what the Americans call blue collar workers.

Why does that interest us? Well, property that accommodates blue collar workers is really cheap in Phoenix now, but a swell of demand is on its way. When it hits, we want to be ready, entrenched and waiting.

Where will this demand come from? Stay with me, the statistics that follow could mean a lot to you.

According to the UN, between 2005 and 2050, half of the increase in the world population will be accounted for by a rise in the population aged 60 years or over.

In Britain there are more than 12.5 million over 60s right now. That's 20% of the population. What's more, the baby boom bulge is fast approaching and will only reach its peak around 2030. There are more senior citizens on the way!

Look at this 2009 chart showing the UK population: that bulge, beginning with people in their late 50s now and swelling out to the high point with those in their mid 40s means that from about 2013 on to 2026 there will be an increase in the number of 60th birthday celebrations every year. From 2026, when the boom peaks, the numbers of retired people will keep on growing until those at the 2026 peak start fading away about twenty years later - 2046.

Here's another thought: we won't see a return to the current level of 60 year olds for another 50 years - when today's 10 year olds retire.

By 2050 one in three Europeans will be over 60 and in the USA, by 2050, there will be 27 million people over 80 years of age. The British chart above is representative of the pattern in the rest of the western developed world.

What will all these older people do? Where will they live? What will their needs be, and who will supply those needs?

One thing is clear: providing for the over 60s is going to be a high growth job sector. The silver dollar is about to go platinum.

That's one reason we think the future looks bright for the 'retirement states' like Arizona. The state has good weather, excellent health care, whole industries, indeed entire cities devoted to providing for the needs and wants of the over 55s.

The sector is huge now. What will happen when the baby boomers start to turn up?

They'll need more of the obvious things: more doctors, more nurses, more health care people. But that's just when they're feeling poorly.

The rest of the time these mostly lively, healthy - and relatively wealthy - retirees will require gardeners, landscapers, builders, decorators, cleaners, hairdressers, shop assistants, street sweepers, green keepers, etcetera, etcetera. The list of 'ordinary blue collar jobs' needed in support roles is vast. Who, in an ageing population, will take up those jobs?

The youngest population by 2050 will be in Africa. Other under-developed countries also tend to have younger populations. UN projections show that an average migration from under-developed nations to developed nations of 2.3 million people per year will be necessary just to stabilise the population numbers in the developed nations. (At around 1.2 billion, since you asked.)

These are astonishing statistics, the numbers so vast we may have trouble comprehending them. Of course they're not just numbers, they are people. Individuals with all the hopes and dreams, needs and wants that you will recognise.

That brings us back to the Phoenix Syndicates. This growing influx of migrant workers will need somewhere to live. Whether they're from Mexico or Rwanda, these people will need housing. They won't have a credit record, they're unlikely to have much money saved up. They'll need rental accommodation and they'll need it for several years - and when they move on there'll be plenty of others waiting to replace them.

The Phoenix Syndicates plan is simple: buy complexes of apartments, install a management team, and help meet the growing demand.

As usual, this is a co-operative venture and those who get involved now stand to do very well over the coming years.

Want to know more? Go to www.phoenixsyndicates.com or give us a call on 01989 555 090.