Tag: National Retirement Risk Index

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Retirement security in 2019 and 2020: We need to fix our retirement system. The release of the Federal Reserve’s 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) provides, once again, an opportunity to take stock of retirement security. For this task, we use our National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI), which compares SCF households’ projected replacement rates – retirement…

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The brief’s key findings are: From 2016 to 2019, the National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) fell slightly from 50 percent to 49 percent. This improvement reflected gains in stock and, particularly, house prices, which were partly offset by lower interest rates and Social Security replacement rates. In 2020, the economy was hit by COVID and…