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Over Half of Business Owners and Executives Surveyed Expect Their Investment in Innovation to Increase

- First-Time Budget for 2016 has risen to $246,378, an increase of 27.5 percent since 2014

- Expected down payment is 10 percent

- Majority of first-time buyers have made lifestyle cutbacks to save money

- Over 80 percent of respondents expect the U.S. economy either to improve or stay the same in 2016

- More than 70 percent of respondents expect to see business growth in 2016; only two percent believe their business will shrink

- Ten percent care for both their children and older relatives while 17 percent expect to care for the two generations in the future

- Those in the "Sandwich Generation" have only reached a third of their retirement savings goal

- Nearly all view retirement as a top priority; however, 30 percent have not thought about what their retirement will look like and 43 percent do not know when they will retire