Retirement planning

The 2022 retirement law aims to help workers pay off their student debts and save for retirement. Can it do both? It's complicated.

Many factors can influence the timing of a person's retirement, but new research shows nothing comes close to health problems.

Here are five parts of the country where seniors are living large in their golden years.

Romantic partners usually agree on their broad retirement goals, a new Ameriprise study shows. But the consensus breaks down over smaller questions.

Late-in-life divorces have more than doubled since 1990, and they often decimate retirement savings.

The "magic number" Americans think they'll need for retirement went up this year — but their actual savings went down.

Independent workers will have access to a retirement plan with a 2% match, along with financial education and support.

Ted Benna's plan would offer financial incentives that could be directed to a long-term investment account for the future.

From baby boomers to Generation Z, employees have different approaches when it comes to their long-term savings.

After IBM unfroze its pension, some wondered if this was the start of a defined-benefit renaissance. Researchers say that's not what it was about.

Nicole Cope, director of Ally Invest Advisors, explains the challenges and benefits of working with each generation on their retirement savings, from baby boomers to Gen Z.

Social Security is getting a 3.2% boost this month — but retirees' expenses have risen by more than triple that rate since last year.

The year saw both progress and problems, from glitches in the Inflation Reduction Act to a controversial new rule for advisers.

Baby boomers may be wealthier, but millennials have benefited from a number of retirement reforms, new research shows — and they still have more time to save.

Baby boomers tend to be viewed as one group. But thanks to the Great Recession, younger boomers have had a much harder time saving for retirement.

The rapidly rising cost of medicine is leaving inflation in the dust, new research shows. Here's how advisers can help retirees cope.

Millions of Americans still strive for FIRE — "financial independence, retire early." But to keep the dream alive, they've had to change it.

In recent decades, a stubborn savings gap has persisted between white and Black Americans.

Auto-enrollment is helping Gen Z Americans save much more actively than the 20-somethings of yesteryear.

Most Americans think they'll need more than $1 million to retire, research shows. Their actual savings are nowhere near that.