Data and Research

Plus, the use of automatic features has increased over the past 10 years, a Vanguard study reports.

A survey by Franklin Templeton Investments finds that Americans are nearly equally as concerned with short-term market volatility as they are with meeting their long-term retirement goals. 

People aspire to a more active retirement lifestyle, and staying in good health can help achieve their goals.

A survey also found U.S. investors rank long-term care and health care costs as their biggest threat to financial security in retirement.

According to an MFS survey, just four in 10 women are confident in their ability to address financial concerns and just one-third of women surveyed are confident they'll...

Using the smoothed assets as allowed and smoothed bond rates require by current law to discount the liability, the 2014 total funding target liability for single-employer plans of...

Looking at the U.S. specifically, the shortfall of retirement savings needed is growing at a rate of $3 trillion each year, and will reach $137 trillion by 2050,...

Their contributions rose by $8.5 billion.

More people in the youngest age cohort say they plan to rely on Social Security for retirement income.

LIMRA data shows total assets of buyout products were nearly $99 billion at the end of the first quarter 2017, nearly 11% higher than first quarter 2016.

However, for older Millennials, taking on too much student loan debt is their top regret.

Forty percent of young people surveyed said this debt is forcing them to delay saving for retirement.

However, contributing to an emergency fund and saving at least 10% for retirement are two of the most challenging practices.

Even though only 8% of Americans believe Millennials are doing a good job at saving, a study by Merrill Edge finds they are saving more than their generational...

Despite Americans’ concerns about being able to afford retirement, more than half of those surveyed (51%) do not include retirement in their long-term financial goals.

On average, white adults ages 50 and older have three sources of income for retirement, compared with two sources each for older African Americans and Hispanics, a survey...

One-half of all of all families that have retirement account assets plus home equity rely on these for more than 78.2% of their retirement savings outside Social Security....

A paper suggests special care needs to be taken to educate age cohorts about their biases to avoid investment portfolios and financial plans that are too conservative.

Additionally, 39% believe they will retire after age 65. 

Fifty-six percent say their primary retirement savings goal is to not outlive savings.