Suzanne Woolley

Unlike Wall Street, most Americans with savings plans such as 401(k)s tell pollsters they expect the fat returns to continue.

The average balance in Fidelity’s survey is a record $92,500. For workers with the same employer for 10 years, it’s a quarter-million dollars.

If myRA, President Obama’s signature retirement plan, were a private-sector startup, it would probably be getting some heat from its venture capital backers right about now.

Many company retirement savings plans could use a swift kick into the 21st century, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

The average 401(k) balance gained for the second quarter in a row, inching up 2%, to $90,600. That amount is a 7% jump from 2015's third quarter and up from an average of $64,300 five years ago.

People often sit down to figure out how much they will need in retirement and assume they'll spend 40 years in the workforce. That's an outmoded assumption, TIAA's Diane Garnic says.

It doesn’t seem like much to ask for—a 5% return. But the odds of making even that on traditional investments in the next 10 years are slim, according to a new report from investment advisory firm Research Affiliates.

The bank’s scandal is a useful, and urgent, reminder: Employee shouldn't sink retirement money into their company’s stock.

If you had to choose between the retirement or salaries, and you're between 18 and 34, odds are you'd trade some of your pay today for greater retirement security in the future.

At 9 p.m. ET, in the first presidential debate of the season, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will be pressed, to a degree, for details of their various proposals. Jobs, wages, taxes, student debt, child care, Social Security ... any or all of these could come up.

Retailers use Labor Day to sell us "elegant" fire pits and pom-poms for handbags (yes, an accessory for an accessory). That isn't quite what the holiday is about.

Many American couples don’t share even basic financial details of their retirement savings account, beyond the fact that they have one, new survey finds.

Employer anxiety about offering you a 401(k) plan is rising rapidly, and for potentially good  and expensive  reasons. Class-action lawyers are targeting a wider variety of alleged breaches of fiduciary duty in retirement offerings and suing a broader range of entities, including college and university 403(b) plans.

Given millennials’ rep for job hopping and stock shunning, here’s a striking statistic.

A number of savings apps for the Apple Watch are rolling out to help workers more easily manage retirement plans.

Norway, Switzerland, and Iceland won the top three spots in Natixis Global Asset Management's fourth annual ranking of the global retirement index.

Class action suit against Fujitsu Technology and Business of America Inc., alleges a cornucopia of fiduciary breaches tied to excessive fees, record keeping, and the components of the company's target-date funds. The case, and several like it in the past year, may be harbingers of a new cycle of 401(k)-gone-bad litigation, this time targeting ever-smaller retirement plans.

A generation crosses a finish line and finds the IRS waiting. Here are some tips to help them minimize the bite.

Some 23% of Americans with jobs said they planned on being septuagenarian employees, up from 16% in 2009, according to recent research.

How does having a big slug of student debt actually hurt the ability to prepare for a comfortable retirement?