Despite all the talk of a retirement crisis — and fears of people running through their savings too quickly — a new study has found something interesting: Older Americans who’ve spent nearly two decades in retirement have not only been able to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living, but have managed to do so while keeping their nest egg largely intact.
But before today’s retirement savers get too giddy, the same study warns that future retirees may find it much more difficult to achieve anything close to the same feat.