The retirement industry was expecting to hear more specifics from President Obama in his State of the Union address.
That didn't happen, despite the fact that the White House released a fact sheet detailing retirement reforms the weekend before the speech. The assumption from everyone was that the president's ideas on reforming retirement tax incentives and expanding retirement savings opportunities would get some attention come Tuesday evening.
But specifics were not to be found in the speech, and Obama ended up mentioning "retirement" just twice and only in a peripheral way.
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