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Retirement crisis overblown, Rand, NBER says

The retirement crisis might not be all it's been cracked up to be.

By John Sullivan | Updated on August 02, 2011

The retirement crisis might not be all it’s been cracked up to be. A new report from the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Rand Corp. finds seven in 10 Americans between the ages of 66 and 69 are “adequately prepared” for the consumption levels required for a successful retirement. This despite dire predictions of readiness for retirement on the part of baby boomers and older cohorts, made worse by the economic downturn of recent years.

“Our main finding is that a substantial majority, about 71%, of those just past the usual retirement age are adequately prepared for retirement in that they will be able to follow a path of consumption that begins at their current level of consumption and then follow an age-pattern similar to that of current retirees,” according to the authors, Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder of Study of Aging at Rand, a nonprofit research firm based in Santa Monica, Calif. “Thus we do not find inadequate preparation for retirement on average.”

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