2017 Global Retirement Study Reveals That U.S. Retirement System Is Only Average As Compared To Other Countries
For the ninth year in a row, Mercer (a global consulting firm with expertise in pensions and investments) and the Australian Centre for Financial Studies have collaborated on research studying the retirement systems of 30 countries and published their findings in the 2017 Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index (2017 Study). The main objectives of the Study were to (i) benchmark each country’s retirement system using more than 40 different factors, (ii) determine the primary shortcomings of each country’s retirement system,…