The 2018 Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS) from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) revealed retirees’ confidence in their ability to live comfortably in retirement remains higher than employees’ confidence, with 32% of retirees very confident and 44% somewhat confident. However, retirees are less likely than last year to feel confident in their ability to handle basic expenses and feel less confident in their ability to handle medical expenses. In addition, as fewer employees plan to rely on defined benefit [...]

Meet the worriers – the people who are afraid they won’t ever be able to retire or that they will run out of money too early in retirement. Three out of 10 say they are so stressed out they even think about it at work, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a research organization that has been examining for years how prepared Americans are for retirement. […]

Chances are, you’re more confident about your prospects for a comfortable retirement today than you were between 2009 and 2013, when retirement confidence was in the doldrums. According to the recently released Retirement Confidence Survey, published annually by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), the percentage of workers very confident about having enough money for a comfortable retirement increased from 13 percent in 2013 to 22 percent in 2015, and leveled off at 21 percent in 2016. […]