The Retirement Newsletter: Retirement satisfaction — better in the UK or the US?

Issue Number: -124 — where will your pension ‘buy’ the best retirement?

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Welcome

Welcome to issue -124.

In this newsletter, I will take a brief look at a report that looks at retirement in the USA and make some comparisons to the UK. Where might you get a better level of retirement for your money? The US or the UK?

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Money

I am not a financial advisor. I am writing about what I have read over the years about money and preparing to retire. The following is not financial advice.

Recently, I came across an article on retirement in the US — These retirees are more likely to be ‘comfortable’ or ‘affluent,’ study finds — and thought it made an interesting contrast to the UK.

The article, “ These retirees are more likely to be ‘comfortable’ or ‘affluent,’ study finds”, makes use of data from Employee Benefit Research Institute — Why Do People Spend the Way They Do in Retirement? Findings From EBRI’s Spending in Retirement Surve y — and unfortunately, I cannot access…