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The baby boomers born in the early 1960s, at the tail end of the demographic wave, had about $280,000 in retirement wealth when they reached their early 50s. That’s significantly less – about $50,000 less – than the late-1950s boomers had at the same age. Some of this shortfall might’ve been anticipated for the youngest…

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Late Boomers have surprisingly low levels of retirement wealth compared to earlier cohorts.  A decline in some wealth components had been expected as a result of the rise in Social Security’s Full Retirement Age and the shift from defined benefit to defined contribution plans.  But increasing 401(k)/IRA balances were predicted to offset the gap, sinc…