The ushers, she said, tend mostly to be retired, well-educated and appreciative of the music.
His financial plan: live like a pauper and retire well.
But when it comes to ensuring that Americans can cope financially after they retire – well, that's something else again.
After the Liberal Party panicked in September over the bad opinion polls, Mr Howard reluctantly pledged to retire "well into" a fifth term.
Nix wanted to sell high to a responsible bank, retire well and be a hero, the guy who took real banking to L.A.'s poorest neighborhoods.
Its welfare state, though not as lavish as those of the Nordic countries, keeps its citizens fairly comfortable in adversity and allows many to achieve their ambition of "retiring well" (on 90% of previous net income for the average earner).
After US Airways' pension plan for its pilots failed this year, however, the government looked at the age when they were actually retiring and found that lately, more than half have been retiring well before their 60th birthday.
But it can be a huge burden for states and municipalities to provide even a modest, $26,000-a-year pension to hundreds of thousands of people, at least in today's economic environment, and especially if those people are able to retire well before 65 and collect that money for many years.
Even if there is technically enough money to pay full benefits until 2023, they said, any benefit cuts would have to be spread out to hit people who retire well before that date as well, simply as a matter of fairness.
But after spending hundreds of hours with women to better understand their investment goals, she realized that what women want are things like money to start businesses, buy homes and retire well.
