“There are no second acts in American lives,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Last Tycoon. But there might be a retirement investing second act for American savers and retirees. Fitzgerald seems … Read more →

Getting competent help can be hard. Hiring a babysitter, vetting a lawn service, figuring out which plumber is going to fix your leaky pipes for a reasonable fee. Same for … Read more →

One of the more interesting financial trends of the past few years has been the appearance of “extreme savers,” folks who aim to retire early by spending nothing and putting away every … Read more →

It’s a recurring theme among financial advisors and the personal finance media: 401(k) savers have too many choices. They are overwhelmed. Admittedly, most normal people are not plugged into the arcana … Read more →

The latest data on our retirement readiness is out and it is, of course, very gloomy. I won’t drag you through the entire report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), since … Read more →

Will you be happy in retirement? Will you have enough money? Is there such as a thing as financial happiness? These two questions seem to be related, and they are — … Read more →

Slovakia. That’s the country that holds the No. 18 position on the Natixis Global Retirement Index, ahead of No. 19, the United States. I don’t mean to belittle Slovakia. I’m sure it’s a lovely place. According … Read more →

How long will you live? It’s an increasingly important question to consider, especially for retirement investors worried about inflation risk. Researchers made waves in the news last week by arguing … Read more →

One of our favorite  commentators on retirement investing, Barry Ritholtz, recently wrote in The Washington Post about investors who believe that they are infallible in all markets: His refreshingly impolite word for these folks is “liars.” … Read more →

What do retirement saving and the weather have in common? People talk about them all the time but nobody does anything about it! An old joke, I know, but like … Read more →