Retirement Trends

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One consultant reported a rise in pension funded status for one group of companies, but another reported a decrease thanks to rising liability values and flat asset values.

Fed officials, including Chair Janet Yellen on May 27, had signaled they were in favor of a rate increase, but the June jobs report seems to stop that.

Since 2012, over half the states in the U.S. have passed legislation to set up or study state-sponsored retirement savings programs for the more than 30 million full-time private sector workers without access to a savings option across the country.

The number of Americans that say they are living comfortably has gone up, but there is still a sizable amount that are struggling to get by.

23 percent of U.S. employees believe theyll have to work past the age of 70 if theyre going to live comfortably in retirement.