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Most Americans Aren’t Confident about Retirement

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Women, near-retirees and younger retirees reported the largest drops in confidence, highlighting a growing need for highly personalized planning and education.

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Gen X Clients Need Help Saving for Retirement. What’s The Cure?

How to help the ‘Whatever’ generation boost savings and live comfortably in their golden years.

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Is the 2.8% Social Security COLA Increase Enough? Depends on Who You Ask

That works out to an additional $56 per retirement payment, bringing the average monthly benefit to more than $2,000.

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Waiting Until 70 to Claim Social Security? It’s Just Not a Financial Reality for Most

One bit of advice from a longtime observer in the retirement business: Don’t shame people into claiming as late as possible.

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Does Retirement Math Still Work? Goldman Warns of Growing ‘Financial Vortex’

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Competing financial priorities and rising costs of living threaten to replace retirement as an economic reality for upcoming generations.

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Clients Could Need $1.26M to Retire. Gen Z Has a Plan

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Young Americans have begun investing in their retirement at just 24 years old compared with almost 40 for boomers, per Northwestern Mutual.

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