Tag: retirement savings

Young plant in the morning light on ground background

But holdings remain low, and many households have none. The Federal Reserve recently released the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), a triennial survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. households, which over-samples those with high net worth.  It is considered the gold standard of information on income and wealth.  For American households, bot…

U.S. Department of Labor sign outside headquarters

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…