NCPA recently published a paper that presents a new take on the retirement issue, Ten Ways to Wreck Your Retirement! This paper does not provide any landmark breakthroughs on the academic front, but it does bring some good ideas together, provides a solid footing for financial education, and might steer legislators away from some of their [...]
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Continue Reading Post a commentTo A Meeting of the Savings and Retirement Forum
with Guest Speaker

Tuesday, March 16, 2010
8:30 am
The New American Foundation
1899 L Street, NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036
NAF senior policy analyst Alejandra Lopez-Fernandini will present her paper “Unrestricted Savings: Their Role in Household Economic Security and the Case for Policy Action,” which is available here.
If you plan on coming please RSVP. Coffee, juice, and pastries will be served. Please feel free to pass this along to others who you feel might be interested in attending.
The purpose of the Forum is to bring together academics, interested industry professionals, policy wonks, and government staffers who work on issues related to Social Security, pensions, savings, and general retirement issues for a monthly seminar and an annual half-day conference. Our website, www.savingsandretirement.org contains the dates of future meetings, links to relevant papers, and a few miscellaneous links that people doing research on these issues may find useful.
The number of older Americans participating in the work force has been rising over the last 15 years or so, after dropping steadily for decades. Researchers attribute that to change in retirement laws, increased lifespans and increasing financial pressures from drops in stock prices to increased health care costs.
The Savings and Retirement Forum is dedicated to bringing together scholars, policy staffers, and industry experts to discuss and explore issues related to the issues of pensions, savings, and retirement. The goal of the forum is to help inform those who advise policymakers of the most current research in the field.
The Forum hosts a monthly breakfast in Washington DC as well as an annual one day conference each Summer while informing its members of events, research, and news relevant to the field.