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Tool enables users to see how their nest eggs stack up; big motivator, survey finds

More than half of the respondents to a new consumer survey by the ING Retirement Research Institute released Wednesday said they would be motivated to save more for retirement if they discovered that their nest eggs didn't measure up to those of their peers.

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