U.S. Retirement Security Slipping
Natixis Global Asset Management and CoreData Research recently released their 2017 Global Retirement Index (Index)–their fifth such Index to date assessing retirement security in 43 developed countries. The Index utilizes 18 drivers of retirement security, grouped into four categories: health, finances, quality of life, and material well being. The data respecting the United States is disappointing. From 2016 to 2017, the U.S. slipped three places in overall retirement security-from number 14 to number 17–due to increasing income inequality and declines…