3 simple ideas to help your employees save for retirement
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Retirement Readiness Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.
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Since the early 1990’s the responsibility for retirement savings has shifted from employers to employees. That means that employees have to make their own saving and investment decisions – a task most are neither comfortable with nor equipped to take on. The result is by now all too familiar: Only one in three American Baby Boomers feel they’ll have enough money to live on in retirement. The strategy for the other two-thirds? They plan to work longer (thus retire later), downsize their homes, live mostly on Social Security, and, well, hope for the best. Here are three practical solutions from Buck Consultants that any employer can implement -- to help their employees save adequately for retirement. And over time, these ideas work.
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Retirement Readiness
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.
Retirement Readiness
Retirement Readiness
Saving for retirement should be easy as 1-2-3. So why do we have a “retirement readiness crisis”?
Retirement Readiness
Saving for retirement should be easy as 1-2-3. So why do we have a “retirement readiness crisis”?
Because retirement savings plans and tools offered by employers are not simple. They make demands. For attention. For sacrifice. And for decisions many employees aren’t geared up to make.
Retirement Readiness
Saving for retirement should be easy as 1-2-3. So why do we have a “retirement readiness crisis”?
Because retirement savings plans and tools offered by employers are not simple. They make demands. For attention. For sacrifice. And for decisions many employees aren’t geared up to make.
We think there are some simpler ideas to tackle this crisis.
Retirement Readiness
Simple Ideas
Just start.
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Simple idea 1.Just start.
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Most retirement planning tools and educational material are well done, informative and easy to use.
Simple idea 1.Just start.
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Simple Ideas
Most retirement planning tools and educational material are well done, informative and easy to use.
But people get distracted. Put it off. Inertia sets in and nothing happens.
Simple idea 1.Just start.
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Simple Ideas
Most retirement planning tools and educational material are well done, informative and easy to use.
But people get distracted. Put it off. Inertia sets in and nothing happens.
Retirement savings plans should simplify the basic steps – getting started, setting goals, getting real about what to do.
Simple idea 1.Just start.
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Simple Ideas
Most retirement planning tools and educational material are well done, informative and easy to use.
But people get distracted. Put it off. Inertia sets in and nothing happens.
Retirement savings plans should simplify the basic steps – getting started, setting goals, getting real about what to do.
Automation gets people started. It should also guide them along the way.
Simple idea 1.Just start.
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Stay on track.
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Simple idea 2.Stay on track.
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Saving for retirement is a marathon, not a sprint.
Simple idea 2.Stay on track.
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Simple Ideas
Saving for retirement is a marathon, not a sprint.
Each year, the plan should review progress toward retirement security and automatically make changes, as needed.
Simple idea 2.Stay on track.
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Simple Ideas
Saving for retirement is a marathon, not a sprint.
Each year, the plan should review progress toward retirement security and automatically make changes, as needed.
If there is a period of poor investment performance, the plan should automatically make adjustments to keep people on track to a secure retirement.
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Simple idea 2.Stay on track.
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Simple Ideas
Saving for retirement is a marathon, not a sprint.
Each year, the plan should review progress toward retirement security and automatically make changes, as needed.
If there is a period of poor investment performance, the plan should automatically make adjustments to keep people on track to a secure retirement.
Life happens. So should retirement.
Simple idea 2.Stay on track.
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Get paid back.
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Simple idea 3.Get paid back.
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People live on budgets their entire working life. Why should retirement be any different?
Simple idea 3.Get paid back.
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Simple Ideas
People live on budgets their entire working life. Why should retirement be any different?
Yet most savings plans stop working once a person retires.
Simple idea 3.Get paid back.
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Simple Ideas
People live on budgets their entire working life. Why should retirement be any different?
Yet most savings plans stop working once a person retires.
Instead, the plan should send a monthly paycheck. And automatically make whatever adjustments are needed to help the money last.
Simple idea 3.Get paid back.
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Simple Ideas
People live on budgets their entire working life. Why should retirement be any different?
Yet most savings plans stop working once a person retires.
Instead, the plan should send a monthly paycheck. And automatically make whatever adjustments are needed to help the money last.
Life goes on. So should the money.
Simple idea 3.Get paid back.
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“When people want to save but can’t bring themselves to do it, their retirement funds need to do the saving for
them – automatically.”
Jason Zweig, “How to Save More For Retirement Without Really Trying.”
Retirement Readiness
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.
Find out how to transform your savings plan into a retirement program that simply works.
Visit us at www.buckconsultants.com/SavingsInSight
