retire 28th Annual Retirement Confidence Survey Related: 10 trends in retirement savings behavior: 2018 Related: Avoiding a retirement savings disaster: Ritholtz 
1. One quarter have saved virtually nothing:
2. High number of healthy savers:
3. Most are not actively calculating what they need to save:
4. Confidence tracks with access to plans:
5. Estimating costs helps with confidence, even if the estimations are not right:
6. Don't fear increasing the default:
7. Low to modest plan engagement
8. Retirees not spending down their DC assets
9. When retirees roll assets out of DC plans:
10. What workers plan to do with DC savings:
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Nick Thornton
Nick Thornton is a financial writer covering retirement and health care issues for BenefitsPRO and ALM Media. He greatly enjoys learning from the vast minds in the legal, academic, advisory and money management communities when covering the retirement space. He's also written on international marketing trends, financial institution risk management, defense and energy issues, the restaurant industry in New York City, surfing, cigars, rum, travel, and fishing. When not writing, he's pushing into some land or water.
