Retirement savings are exposed to the market. Created by market-based retirement: the household bears the crash.
This is a need. Something a person cannot ignore. Non-negotiable, usually urgent, and the most reliable foundation for a business. It is felt by the individual, continuously, and rates 4 out of 5 for the pressure it exerts.
It is rooted in Uncertainty and Safety.
This friction did not arise on its own. It was created by Tax-advantaged retirement accounts — a solution to an earlier problem that produced this one.
The market has answered it in 2 ways: Index funds and target-date funds and Bonds and fixed income
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The line back to a human being
3 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- FrictionRetirement savings are exposed to the market
- SolutionTax-advantaged retirement accounts
- FrictionRetirement is now visible and must be funded from what remains
- Life phaseMidlife
- Rooted inSafety
- Rooted inScarce resources
- Rooted inUncertainty
Relieved by
Every one of these is a business, an institution or a habit built on this single pressure.