Gen X-ers are lagging behind in retirement saving and planning. Here’s how to catch up.
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Gen X-ers are lagging behind in retirement saving and planning. Here’s how to catch up.Listen(7 min)Listen(7 min)Generation X, as the first do-it-yourself retirement generation, is falling behind.As the first generation funding retirement largely without private pension plans, Gen X — those born between 1965 and 1980 — have had to build their retirement nest egg on their own, and they’re not doing so well.About the AuthorJessica Hall is a retirement reporter for MarketWatch. She was an Age Boom Academy Fellow with Columbia University and completed the Leadership Exchange on Ageism. She previously worked at Mainebiz, the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, where she and her team earned a Scripps Howard Award for Community Journalism for a series on aging. She spent 17 years at Reuters, covering mergers and acquisitions, telecommunications and airlines. She started her career in Baltimore at The Daily Record and Baltimore Business Journal. She has freelanced for Barron’s and other publications.Copyright © 2025 MarketWatch, Inc. All rights reserved.