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What Moves the National Retirement Risk Index? A Look Back and an Update

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January 1, 2007

Introduction In June 2006, the Center for Retirement Research released the National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI). The results showed that even if households work to age 65 and annuitize all their financial assets, including the receipts from reverse mortgages on their homes, 43 percent will be at risk of being unable to maintain their standard…

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Households ‘At Risk’: A Closer Look at the Bottom Third

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January 1, 2007

Introduction The Center’s National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) provides a measure of the percentage of households that will be unable to maintain their standard of living in retirement. Issued in June 2006 with numbers based on the 2004 Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances, the Index shows that 43 percent of the population will b…

Yikes! How to Think About Risk?

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January 1, 2005