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A detailed new retirement readiness model created by researchers at Morningstar confirms that defined contribution plan access provides a big boost to retirement readiness for a given individual, but the work also lays bare some major gaps in readiness among certain demographic groups.
Specifically, lower-income workers are at a considerably higher risk of retirement insecurity — especially if the funding woes of Social Security aren't addressed — as are baby boomers and members of Generation X who face shorter accumulation periods in workplace retirement plan savings.
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John Manganaro
John Manganaro is a senior reporter for ThinkAdvisor. His coverage focuses on all things retirement, with a special emphasis on the perspective of financial planning professionals and family wealth managers. Before joining ThinkAdvisor in 2022, John was a reporter and editor at PLANADVISER Magazine, and earlier in his career his coverage of the Pennsylvania Legislature regularly appeared in premier metropolitan newspapers including the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He can be reached via at [email protected], on X at @manganaro_news, and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/manganaronews/.
