Retirees Still Saving After All These Years
Retirees Still Saving After All These Years
The findings stand in stark contrast to the status of those of younger generations. Research on those cohorts has found that they are undersaving. “The conditions that supported this spending and savings behavior are unlikely to persist,” BlackRock stated in a late 2017 report. “Future retirees will face a much different retirement landscape and will need to adopt new sets of skills — behavioral and financial — that will help them systematically tap into retirement savings to support future spending.”
Retirees Still Saving After All These Years
Researchers find that many can' t kick the habit and finally spend on themselves
Thomas Barwick/Getty Images The study found that a third of the retirees had actually increased their net worth. As baby boomers are leaving the workforce, they’re beginning to dive into their retirement and other . But at least a few are plowing money back in, averse to spending after so many years of habitual saving. CNN Money recently reported that recent studies “suggest that many people may have a harder time spending down their than you might think.”Two cases in point
Research by the BlackRock Retirement Institute determined that after almost 20 years of retirement, most households had more than 80 percent of the assets, adjusted for inflation, that they had when they first retired. A third of them had actually increased their net worth. A Vanguard retirement survey in 2015 found that among those with at least $100,000 in total financial assets, the typical retiree reinvested 40 percent of money withdrawn from retirement accounts like 401(k)s or IRAs. Some observers attribute the behavior to an inability to shift one’s spending/saving mind-set after meticulously putting away money for decades. "Rather than traveling, buying a second home or indulging in other traditional retirement spending patterns, these retirees tend to be ," a recent column at securedretirements.com stated.The findings stand in stark contrast to the status of those of younger generations. Research on those cohorts has found that they are undersaving. “The conditions that supported this spending and savings behavior are unlikely to persist,” BlackRock stated in a late 2017 report. “Future retirees will face a much different retirement landscape and will need to adopt new sets of skills — behavioral and financial — that will help them systematically tap into retirement savings to support future spending.”