In a recent study, we used our updated National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) to see whether households have a good sense of their own retirement preparedness — do their expectations match the reality they face? That is, do households at risk know they are at risk?
Understanding households’ self-assessed retirement preparedness is important because households that are not worried enough will not save enough and households that are too worried will unnecessarily sacrifice their preretirement standard of living.
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