Individual account retirement plans, such as 401(k) plans and individual retirement accounts (IRAs), have grown to be the predominant source of retirement assets for private-sector workers, and are becoming increasingly important for public-sector workers as well. Tracking the percentage of...

This paper assesses the status of American families’ accumulations in individual account plans, both through the incidence of ownership and the average amounts accumulated. The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the Federal Reserve Board’s triennial survey of wealth, is the basis for this...

This Issue Brief updates the work done on previous versions of the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) with results from the 2001 SCF, which provides the most recent estimates of Americans' entire portfolio of wealth. The SCF not only includes...

This paper assesses the status of American families’ accumulations in individual account (IA) retirement plans, both through the incidence of ownership and the amounts accumulated, using the Federal Reserve Board’s triennial Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). Building on previous research by...

This paper assesses how prepared Americans are for retirement by examining the incidence of individual account plans among families, as well as the average amount of assets accumulated in these accounts. The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the Federal Reserve Board's triennial survey of...

This paper is the sixth annual cross-sectional analysis update of the EBRI IRA Database. It includes results on the distribution of individual retirement account (IRA) types and account balances, contributions, rollovers, withdrawals, and asset allocation in IRAs for 2014, the latest data...