Tag: Retirement assets

Piggy bank wearing eye glasses facing a calculator on a blue background

Older high-income households with a 401(k) gained; everybody else lost.  The Federal Reserve’s 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) summarizes changes in family finances between 2019 and 2022 – three years of COVID and economic disruption, and 2022 was also a terrible year in terms of stock and bond returns.  At the same time, t…

Senior couple reading documents and calculating bills

Late Boomers have low levels of wealth regardless of how it is defined – total wealth, retirement wealth, or 401(k)/IRA wealth.  A decline in some wealth components had been expected as a result of the rise in Social Security’s Full Retirement Age, the shift from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) plans, and a…