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What Moves the National Retirement Risk Index? A Look Back and an Update

by Alicia H. Munnell, Francesca Golub-Sass, and Anthony Webb

January 2007

IB#7-1

Introduction

In June 2006, the Center for Retirement Research released the National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI). The results showed that even if households work to age 65 and annuitize all their financial assets, including the receipts from reverse mortgages on their homes, 43 percent will be at risk of being unable to maintain their standard of living in retirement. Households are more likely to be ‘at risk’ if they are young, have low incomes, or lack pension coverage...

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Alicia H. Munnell is the Director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR) and the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. Francesca Golub-Sass is a research associate and Anthony Webb is a research economist at the CRR.

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