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Benz's Retirement Planning Outlook at Midyear

Retirement account balances are up, but pre-retirees and retirees still face challenges ahead.

Christine Benz, Susan Dziubinski

Jul 10, 2018

Susan Dziubinski: For Morningstar, I'm Susan Dziubinski. We are midway through 2018. Here to discuss what's been going on with retirement planning is Christine Benz. She is our director of personal finance on Morningstar.com.

Christine, thanks for joining me.

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