Many workers save for retirement but lack a strategy to turn 401(k) funds into steady income that will last, a new survey ...

New research from major financial institutions exposes a retirement planning gap.

The wise minds at Moody’s Investors Service finally acknowledged last week what the other two main credit rating agencies did years ago: America has a debt problem. Now it’s time for America to ...

If you asked retirees 20 years ago what would squeeze a fixed income later in life, most probably would have named the usual suspects: housing, health care, food, and maybe utilities. Those still ...

A question of general interest from a reader called “Mander” seems worth exploring in this time of great uncertainty; the question is, can we maintain retirement income while cutting risk? An ...

Forget running out of money. You may have the opposite risk.

Early retirement can pose some challenges you should know about. You could be penalized for tapping your savings and struggle with high health insurance costs. There's also the issue of just plain ...

Learn how Parent PLUS loans can threaten retirement, how to evaluate borrowing and what you can do before repayment problems ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. A middle-class American couple in their late 60s faces a ...

The so-called impending "retirement crisis" and the related "pension crisis" are topics that have garnered much attention of late. Traditionally, retirement plans consisted of three pillars: ...

Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering economics. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she is author of “An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to ...