Tag: retirement income
Ignoring future earnings and contributions produces meaningless numbers. In my view, one of the best things to come out of the SECURE Act of 2019 is the requirement that plan sponsors “give savers a realistic illustration of how much monthly retirement income they could expect to purchase with their account balance.” Shifting the focus…
Americans’ retirement outlook has gone from bleak to bleaker. The unemployment caused by COVID-19 has pushed up the share of working-age households not able to afford their current standard of living in retirement from 50 percent to 55 percent, according to a new analysis by the Center for Retirement Research, which sponsors this blog. T…
