Retirement

Rumor has it that the Department of Labor recently hired a lot of new field auditors, which could only mean one thing — more audits. Which Principal Financial's Aaron Friedman says means it is safe to say that more 403(b) plans will be put on the firing line as well. Just what we need, right? Well, a little work now and some knowledge may help, so keep reading.

Starting next year, PPACA will lead to a 3.8% surtax on many people’s investment income, but there are ways around it.

Seventy-two percent of those polled recently by T. Rowe Price say that saving for retirement is their top financial goal, but are our mouths and our money in the same place?

Those buying homes as an investment now represent 18% of sales as many are disappointed with bank savings and wary of the stock market.

Football season has reached its halfway point, but Legg Mason has a savings plan ready to kickoff financial security.

In the past year, almost 30% of baby boomers stopped contributing to a retirement plan, according to new data, and 22% have no retirement savings at all.

New Limra survey indicates that more than a quarter of workers 55 or older aren’t saving anything at all for retirement.

TIAA-CREF data show a dearth of plan participants who feel they are getting adequate, sound financial advice; even fewer regularly act on it.

River City Bank takes top honors in the 2012 EBN-EBA Financial Fitness Challenge, in which participating employees from over a dozen organizations logged 10,000 hours of financial education.

15 employers from public and private sector competed in the 2012 EBN-EBA Financial Fitness Challenge