2023 Retirement Market Outlook

In our second annual Retirement Market Outlook, we look at helping Americans get and stay on track with their retirement savings, providing the holistic help savers need, and navigating market uncertainty and volatility.

There is an increased focus on savings adequacy to close a widening savings gap, particularly among women and underrepresented communities.
Financial wellness is becoming more holistic. A broader view of retirement, wealth, and health needs illuminates the road from working years into retirement.
Volatile markets create complex challenges for those saving for, and spending in, retirement. Professionally managed portfolios can help navigate uncertainty.

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The Investment Landscape:

Weathering Challenges to Keep Portfolios on Track in Both the Saving and Spending Phases

Financial Wellness:

The Need to Offer Holistic, Personalized Help to Savers

Access and Adequacy:

Getting on Track and Staying There

The Investment Landscape: Weathering Challenges to Keep Portfolios on Track

Moving into 2023, working and retired participants both face economic uncertainty and high levels of market volatility.

Retirement

Planning for Spending Volatility in Retirement

Retirement income solutions should incorporate liquidity for cash flows and growth opportunities to potentially enhance retirement outcomes. Read More

Key Insights

Individualized investment advice and professional portfolio management—throughout the journey to and through retirement—potentially can help set up participants for successful outcomes.
It is critically important for investors to build well-diversified portfolios with fixed income allocations that go beyond investment-grade bonds to include a broader range of sectors.
T. Rowe Price believes that active management—including tactical allocation within multi-asset strategies—could offer significant diversification and return enhancement benefits.

Inflation is driving many investor risks

Diversification cannot assure a profit or protect against loss in a declining market.

Financial Wellness: The Need to Offer Holistic, Personalized Help to Savers

Employers are offering holistic help that goes beyond saving and investing for retirement. Including, optional provisions in Secure 2.0 that could help their plan populations address barriers to retirement savings.

Retirement

SECURE 2.0 Could Boost the Financial Wellness Landscape

Optional provisions in new law could help improve retirement outcomes. Read More

Key Insights

The demand for holistic financial wellness programs is being driven by young employees with different expectations for benefits, appreciation for the role benefits play in talent acquisition and retention, and new technology that makes solutions easier to deliver.
Employers increasingly are offering personalized and targeted financial solutions that go beyond saving and investing to address employees’ competing financial priorities.

Moderate to high levels of financial stress by source

For illustrative purposes only. This does not represent an actual investment or participant. Investing is subject to risk including possible loss of principal and fluctuation. There is no assurance that any objective will be met. Source of savings trends noted: T. Rowe Price Retirement Savings and Spending Study, 2021

Access and Adequacy: Getting Investors on Track and Helping Them Stay There

Many investors are under-saving for retirement, and it’s an issue that is only compounding in a challenging economic climate.

Retirement

Closing the Gender Retirement Savings Gap

Lower contributions, lower savings, more debt, and shorter job tenures resulted in lower retirement confidence among women. Read More

Key Insights

More than 40% of the U.S. private sector workforce does not have access to a retirement savings plan at work, and lack of access is particularly acute for racial and ethnic minorities.

Day-to-day living expenses and debt are common barriers to saving. This particularly impacts savings for Black, Hispanic, and female workers.

When people start to save for retirement is also key, as it can make a big difference in whether they get on track toward achieving their retirement objectives.

Competing financial priorities often prevent investors from saving early

Solving this problem is a business imperative for employers.

In a tight labor market, a strong retirement plan can attract and retain talent

A well-designed plan can help address financial disparities and align with diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies

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Source Information: T. Rowe Price research shared throughout this report as “our research” was compiled from the sources listed on pages 17–18 of the full article.

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2023 U.S. Retirement Market Outlook