London

LOW global interest rates are crippling baby-boomer retirees who are now at risk from underperforming bond and equity markets.

Despite the rise in US Federal Reserve rates to 0.25 per cent, saving rates and 10-year Treasury bond yields at 2.2 per cent are still punitively low. At that bond yield, the amount of time a compounded return would cause the original investment to double would be 32 years.