Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) hold more than 25 percent of all retirement assets in the United States. A substantial portion of these assets originated in other tax-qualified retirement plans, such as defined benefit (pension) and 401(k) plans, and were moved to IRAs through rollovers....

This paper is the second examination of asset allocation from the EBRI IRA Database. The EBRI IRA Database is an ongoing project of the Employee Benefit Research Institute that currently contains information on 14.85 million accounts of 11.1 million unique individuals with total assets of $1.002...

Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) are a vital component of U.S. retirement savings, representing more than 25 percent of all retirement assets in the nation. A substantial portion of these IRA assets originated in other tax-qualified retirement plans, such as defined benefit (pension) and...

This paper examines the percentage of traditional or Roth IRAs in the EBRI IRA Database that had a withdrawal in 2011. In this study, only withdrawals from the accounts identified as traditional or Roth IRAs in the database are examined, a total of 15.3 million accounts with $1.11 trillion in...

Individual account retirement plans, such as 401(k) plans and individual retirement accounts (IRAs), have grown to be the predominant source of retirement assets for private-sector workers, and are becoming increasingly important for public-sector workers as well. Tracking the percentage of...

Using Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data from the U.S. Census Bureau, characteristics of individual retirement account (IRA) owners ages 21 and over are examined. Approximately, 16 percent of Americans ages 21 and over owned an IRA early in 1997, with an average balance of...