Retirement saving is hard to do. It’s made even harder by the fact that most people cannot earn enough over a lifetime to retire safely without taking on at least some investment … Read more →

You probably won’t be surprised to hear that early IRA withdrawal is a major trend in retirement investing. A new study from the Employee Benefits Research Institute put a number on it … Read more →

You might have run into a story this week about retirement derailers, the unexpected life events that tend to put retirement savers off-track and leave them tens of thousands of … Read more →

It’s the single biggest question facing working Americans of all ages: Can I retire on time, and what will happen once I finally quit working? Financial planners can sit you down … Read more →

A new report casts considerable doubt on how well many Americans will fare in retirement: Those born between 1966 and 1975, the so-called Gen-Xers, will be the worst off regarding their retirement … Read more →

Warren Buffett, the jocular Midwestern billionaire best known for his appearances in business magazines and on CNBC, has joined Twitter. Yes, that’s right, the online bastion of starlets and rappers … Read more →

The popular image of a “one percenter” in America is the uber-connected Wall Street shark, a banker with few morals and no compunction about making money at the expense of others, even his … Read more →

If you watch enough cable TV, you might get the impression that you should follow an investing hunch and trade stocks online. The ads show attractive young professionals sitting at three, … Read more →

Should you worry about the proposed cap on tax-deferred retirement accounts which appears in the draft Obama budget? Yes and…no, not really. Yes because, in principle, any effort to reduce the … Read more →

A new report from the government might lead you to believe that rolling over your 401(k) into an IRA is inherently dangerous, that there is no such thing as a … Read more →