Small biz owners not prepared for retirement

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Many small business owners are unprepared for retirement, with a third of the women and a quarter of the men in a new survey having no estimate of how much they will need when they retire.

The survey, by the American College, a nonprofit educational institution devoted to financial services, found that while 66% of the women and 70% of the men said they had developed an estimate of their retirement needs, only half of these individuals have done so with the assistance of a financial professional.

Michael Cohn
Editor-in-chief, AccountingToday.com

Michael Cohn, editor-in-chief of AccountingToday.com, has been covering business and technology for a variety of publications since 1985. Prior to joining Accounting Today and WebCPA, he worked for … Read full bio


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