ICI Webinar on Survey Results About Americans’ Retirement Savings Through Three Years of Economic Stress

The Investment Company Institute (ICI) hosted a webinar and conference call on January 27, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. EST in Washington, DC to present to present and discuss Commitment to Retirement Security: Investor Attitudes and Actions.

HIGHLIGHTS

Speakers:

• Paul Schott Stevens, ICI President and CEO
• Sarah Holden, ICI Senior Director of Retirement and Investor Research

Topics:

• A survey of U.S. households in November and December 2010, asking about their views on the 401(k) system
• Data from defined contribution (DC) plan recordkeepers, focusing on activities in nearly 24 million DC accounts from January–September 2010
• The combination of survey data makes it possible to simultaneously look at households’ opinions about 401(k) plans and retirement saving and the actions that DC plan investors actually took.