Tag: National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI)

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The National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) measures the percentage of working-age households that is at risk of being financially unprepared for retirement.  Since the Great Recession, the calculations show that even if households work to age 65 and annuitize all their financial assets, including the receipts from reverse mortgages on their homes, roughly half of…

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The National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) shows that half of today’s working families are “at risk” of being unable to maintain their standard of living once they retire.  This result is not surprising since, at any given point, about half of private sector workers do not have an employer-sponsored retirement plan, and many who do…