Think that retirement worries are restricted to the vast hordes of under-prepared workers in the United States? Not exactly.
According to new research from Accenture, Americans have much in common with people from 15 other major industrialized countries across the globe – in that 82 percent of some 8,000 people surveyed around the world said they too are worried about their finances after retirement.
The story, it seems, is the same in places from Australia to China: 89 percent say they know it's important to start saving now, but only 16 percent feel that they're doing enough now to actually have a safe amount of money for retirement.
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