“We built this on top of a government survey, the Survey of Consumer Finances… we incorporate people's wages, savings, job changes… long-term care… produce a distribution of outcomes on retirement income adequacy.”

Spencer Look · The Long View · Spencer Look and Jack VanDerhei: The Assumptions That Can Put Your Retirement at Risk

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Built a household-level micro-simulation retirement model on the Survey of Consumer Finances to project wages, savings, job changes, withdrawals, Social Security, longevity and long-term-care costs

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