HSBC LOOKS INTO AGEING: Bank examines how we feel about getting older
[15 December 2005 - icThewharf (UK)] HSBC has teamed up with Oxford University to undertake the largest ever research project into the global implications of ageing. Under a five-year agreement, announced last week, the Canada Square-based bank and the Oxford Institute of Ageing (OIA) will interview some 24,000 people in 20 countries. The longer term aim is to build a leading research database on global ageing which will provide key information to public policy makers and corporates. HSBC will give the OIA ``significant'' funding and three new HSBC Research Fellows will work with the bank on the issue. HSBC's chief executive Stephen Green said the partnership will build on research the bank undertook on retirement, earlier this year. ...