9/18/2015 – Gen X is sleeping through its retirement wake-up call (MarketWatch)

“Gen X is in retirement jeopardy,” warns Catherine Collinson, president of the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies (TCRS), which just released A Compendium of Findings About American Workers backing that up. “At their age, they need to be more focused on saving and planning for retirement, but our research found that many have backed away from it.”

Similar studies from Northwestern Mutual, Allianz Life and New York Life ring a similar alarm.

TCRS had the Harris Poll survey American workers and compared those results with other surveys it had commissioned since 2011. Among the findings: While Generation X has inched closer to retirement, it has grown increasingly less interested in planning for retirement.

Read the full article in MarketWatch.