Are americans prepared for retirement?

Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-13

  Yuh, Yoonkyung ^a   Montalto, Catherine Phillips ^a   Hanna, Sherman ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Life cycle model; Retirement needs; Retirement planning; Retirement wealth adequacy; Survey of consumer finances

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878286043     PISSN: 10523073     EISSN: 19477910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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