Why Every Retiree Needs to Make 20% a Year

There's no polite way to say it: Americans are over a barrel when it comes to retirement. Two decades of slow-rolling growth and the worst crisis since the Great Depression mean around 40% of today's workforce has nothing saved for retirement. Too many people have too little money and too little time. And too many of them don't even realize it. There's no big conspiracy, no giant hose job going on; it's a tragedy of errors. People are settling for subpar returns... ...and it's dooming them to a dismal retirement. This is a grim picture, sure, but I'm not finished yet. Let me paint you another. It'll show you how we got here, and, of course, what you can do about it... Tags: Retirement Article To get full access to all Money Morning content, click here About Money Morning: Money Morning gives you access to a team of ten market experts with more than 250 years of combined investing experience – for free . Our experts – who have appeared on FOXBusiness, CNBC, NPR, and BloombergTV – deliver daily investing tips and stock picks, provide analysis with actions to take, and answer your biggest market questions. Our goal is to help our millions of e-newsletter subscribers and Moneymorning.com visitors become smarter, more confident investors. Disclaimer: © 2017 Money Morning and Money Map Press. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright of the United States and international treaties. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including the world wide web), of content from this webpage, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Money Morning. 16 W. Madison St. Baltimore, MD, 21201. The post Why Every Retiree Needs to Make 20% a Year appeared first on Money Morning - We Make Investing Profitable .