Tag: Survey of Consumer Finances

piggy bank on top of coins with a seedling growing out of the top

The Federal Reserve’s 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) summarizes changes in family finances between 2019 and 2022 – three years of COVID, economic disruption, and unprecedented fiscal support – and 2022 was also a terrible year in terms of stock and bond returns. Despite the unusual circumstances, employment remained strong, the stock market –…

Senior couple strolling happily along the beach in the sunshine

Much of the work we do suggests that people are not saving enough for retirement.  More specifically, since 2006 we have published our National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI), which uses the Federal Reserve’s triennial Survey of Consumer Finances to compare households’ projected replacement rates – retirement income as a percentage of pre-retirement income – with targets…