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Cogent: Nest Eggs are Smaller

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The typical affluent worker who retired in October 2010 had 12% less retirement savings than the typical affluent worker who retired in October 2006.

Cogent Research L.L.C., Cambridge, Mass., has reported that finding in a summary of results from a survey of 4,000 affluent U.S. consumers with at least $100,000 in investable assets. Cogent Research has been conducting similar surveys every year since 2006.

About 33% of affluent U.S. residents are now retired, Cogent says.

Affluent workers who retired in October 2010 had an average of $708,000 in investable assets, down from $809,000 4 years earlier, Cogent says.

Affluent workers ages 45 to 54 may be in better shape: Only 5% of them are retired, and the average level of investable assets for affluent workers in that group has increased 10% since 2006, Cogent says.

- Trevor Thomas


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