3 Numbers From a Recent Study Can Tell You if You're Meeting Retirement Savings Benchmarks

Vanguard recently unveiled its How America Saves 2025 report, which includes data for the hundreds of retirement plans (and millions of individual accounts) it administers. Although its clients represent just a small subset of the U.S. population, the report does offer investors a yardstick they can use to evaluate their retirement readiness. Here are the three numbers from the report that you'll want to focus on.Vanguard provides tax-advantaged retirement accounts like IRAs, Roth IRAs, and 401(k) accounts, as well as standard brokerage accounts and mutual funds. However, the How America Saves 2025 report covers only defined contribution plans with the 401(k) making up the large majority of those plans. As a result, the data captures just part of the savings picture for the people included in the report. That said, the 401(k) is the largest retirement savings vehicle many people have, so the data is important; it just needs to be considered in context.Image source: Getty Images.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool