
The vast majority of couples born in the 1940s have levels of wealth that are more than sufficient to maintain their standards of living into and through retirement. This is the main finding of Retirement Sorted? The adequacy and optimality of wealth among the near-retired, new research published today by the IFS and funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council.
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Cormac O'Dea
Research Associate Yale University
Cormac is a Research Associate of the IFS, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Yale University and Research Fellow at the NBER.

Rowena Crawford
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