Retirement planning

With assets in a single account, monitoring gets easier and investors can take a pro-active approach to protecting their portfolio from market volatility.

A MassMutual marketing campaign promotes 401(k) savings with pictures of cats and dogs.

While it is understandable for parents to support their children's athletic goals, they should learn to cut back on other expenses.

Employees have many destructive behaviors when it comes to their finances. Here’s how employers can help stop them.

While it is understandable for parents to support their children's athletic goals, they should learn to cut back on other expenses.

If costs continue to escalate, Medicare may be forced to pass on the costs to beneficiaries, who are mostly retirees.

Company after company has repudiated traditional pensions, pushing younger workers into 401(k)-style retirement plans. For diligent savers, a 401(k) can accumulate a big balance, but when the time comes to start using it, things will get a lot more complicated than it was for their parents.

There’s a wide disconnect between retirement plan participants and their retirement goals, and that is affecting how employees understand and interact with plans, according to new research.

When addressing plans for life and finances after work, employers should focus their message to specific age groups, OneAmerica research suggests.

As the fiduciary rule creates challenges to old ways of growing retirement assets, it’s time to consider another source of growth: portability solutions.

Index funds can have longer-term benefits than just a one-time expense that's lower than the other investment options.

More than half are optimistic that the marketplaces will be an alternative to coverage they now offer their pre-Medicare-eligible retirees by 2018.

Index funds can have longer-term benefits than just a one-time expense that's lower than the other investment options.

More than half are optimistic that the marketplaces will be an alternative to coverage they now offer their pre-Medicare-eligible retirees by 2018.

Many Americans make the mistake of tapping their home value for immediate financial issues instead of using it to help fund their retirement.

Many Americans make the mistake of tapping their home value for immediate financial issues instead of using it to help fund their retirement.

Lawmakers have a responsibility to craft legislation and regulations that will help employers of all sizes, says State Street Global Advisors’ Melissa Kahn.

Why timing is so important for college graduates when making contributions to their employers' 401(k) plans.

Why timing is so important for college graduates when making contributions to their employers' 401(k) plans.

A rising share of Americans is holding jobs into their golden years, bucking the overall trend of people leaving the labor force.