New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- Retirement is often treated as a milestone marked by age, a date, or a resignation letter. But at a recent Investor Awareness Program (IAP) session hosted by Mint and Mirae Asset Mutual Fund in Hyderabad, the message was far more practical: "Retirement is a number, not an age." The focus of the evening was not on predicting markets or chasing quick fixes, but on understanding what it actually takes to build a retirement corpus that can support the life people want to live after work.

The session, titled 'Close the Retirement Gap: Build Your Corpus Early', featured Krishna Chaitanya, AVP, Regional Head East, Mirae Asset Investment Managers (India) Pvt. Ltd, followed by a panel conversation that included financial exp...