Tag: financial wealth
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The brief’s key findings are: The National Retirement Risk Index shows that changes in interest rates have only a modest effect on retirement preparedness for three reasons: Most households have relatively little financial wealth to annuitize. The effect on annuity income is muted, because the principal portion of the annuity payout is unaffected by interest…