The average U.S. resident who will become eligible for retirement in 2008 is relatively prosperous.
Researchers at the MetLife Mature Market Institute, an arm of a unit of MetLife Inc., New York, have reported that finding in a summary of results from a recent telephone survey of 1,000 U.S. residents who were 61 in 2007.
The survey participants are the oldest baby boomers, or members of the generation born from 1946 to 1964.