Most clients approaching retirement are measuring themselves against a number. What the benchmarks actually showUsing US data as a consistent global reference point, the picture is more nuanced than most clients expect. I had a client who’d set himself a $10 million target. What to tell your clientsThe most useful question to put to any client who’s fixated on a retirement target isn’t whether they’re on track to hit it. The clients who sleep well aren’t the ones who hit the biggest number.