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🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The National Retirement Risk Index measures how many Americans will be able to maintain their standard of living after retirement. Are you at risk? We'll find out today as Bro goes right to the source, with special guest Geoffrey Sanzenbacher from The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

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0:00.0	This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick, joined as always by Robert Brokamp,
0:08.0	CFP, MVP, Homecoming King, and personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool. He really was
0:13.7	Homecoming King. In this week's episode, we warned you we were changing up the show's format a bit,
0:19.1	and here's another change. Rather than bring you a mailbag episode the last week of every month, we'll changing up the show's format a bit, and here's another change.
0:23.9	Rather than bring you a mailbag episode the last week of every month,
0:28.2	we'll aim to bring you interesting interviews with outside experts in the field of retirement,
0:31.8	money, finance, and honestly, whatever we want to talk about.
0:35.5	This week, Bro sits down with Jeffrey Sanzenbacher,
0:38.6	economists with the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
0:43.5	They're going to talk about the big trends in retirement today, as well as what to do about Social Security.
0:47.1	All that and more on this week's episode of Motleyful Answers.
0:54.7	Longtime listeners know that one of my go-to sources for academic research into financial independence is the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. It's a steady stream of studies and analysis, both on their
0:59.6	main website and their squared away blog. The center also created the National Retirement Risk
1:05.0	Index, a measure of the percentage of Americans that will be able to maintain their standard
1:09.1	of living once they leave the working
1:11.0	world. Here to talk about the index and plenty of other topics is Dr. Jeff Sanzibacher,
1:15.7	Associate Professor of the Practice of Economics and a Research Fellow at the Center for Retirement
1:20.4	Research at Boston College. Dr. Sanzibacher, welcome to Motley Full Answers.
1:24.9	Thanks so much, Robert. So let's start with the National Retirement Risk Index.
1:29.2	What is it and what's it saying about retirement preparedness in America nowadays?
1:34.2	Yeah, the National Retirement Risk Index is an index that basically takes where people are on their life track for retirement savings
1:42.6	and projects them out to the time when they're going to retire.
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