Tag: retirement savings
2013 Survey of Consumer Finances shows drop in balances and in participation. The Federal Reserve has just released the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), a triennial survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. households, which collects detailed data on their assets, liabilities, and demographic characteristics. It is considered the gold standard of information…
The brief’s key findings are: The National Retirement Risk Index framework is used to address how much working-age households need to save for retirement. A typical household should get a third of its retirement income from a savings plan, with the low income needing one quarter and the high income one half. A typical household…
