Vanguard’s latest retirement outlook was full of interesting observations. Key findings included only four in 10 Americans being on track to maintain their lifestyle in retirement, and younger generations reaping “the benefits of an improving retirement system” compared to Gen X and baby boomers.
According to the annual report (1),
Vanguard’s latest retirement outlook was full of interesting observations.
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It has been my custom for most of the past 28 years to write a year-end column summarizing the Social Security updates scheduled for the following year. I discussed some of these updates in October when they were first announced. But it doesn’t hurt to repeat them here. (They all grow out of the annual cost-of-living adjustments that have been part of the program since 1973.)
However,
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