Retirement

By Mark Miller CHICAGO, April 26 (Reuters) - PBS Frontline is shocked - shocked! - to find that investors hold retirement accounts that cost too much and eat into long-term returns, even though financial experts have been hammering away on these issues...

Most Americans are aware that they need to save for retirement. It is a topic that is easy to brush aside to a later date because although the subject is important, it may not seem urgent. But the longer you put off some basic retirement planning, the...

Dear Liz: I try to watch out for my neighbors, a married couple in their early 90s. Two of their three sons, who are both in their 60s, want them to get a reverse mortgage. The couple's house is paid off as well as their cars. They pay all their monthly...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates for seniors say President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to protect Social Security, while conservatives say he is breaking his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Obama's budget proposal includes a...

Labor unions representing federal employees reacted angrily to the $3.8 trillion budget unveiled Wednesday by President Barack Obama, who proposed trimming $20 billion from federal retirement benefits — reopening a debate many Democrats felt had...

The president and a few other prominent Democrats are openly suggesting that Social Security payments be reduced by applying a lower adjustment for inflation, and that Medicare be means-tested. This is even before Democrats have begun formal budget...

(The writer is a Reuters contributor. The views expressed are his own.) By Chris Taylor NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) - If there is one thing that American workers should lament when it comes to their retirement security, it is the inexorable decline...

The whole thought process on the merits of the Florida Retirement System — as expressed in the April 12 My Word column, "All workers should have state plan's security," by Tom Morris — is precisely the reason that Europe's countries, and now...

By Linda Stern WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - By the time you are nearing the pre-retirement years, you've probably heard all that nose-to-the-grindstone advice hundreds of times: Work longer. Cinch the belt tighter. Plow as much as possible into...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - By the time you are nearing the pre-retirement years, you've probably heard all that nose-to-the-grindstone advice hundreds of times: Work longer. Cinch the belt tighter. Plow as much as possible into your 401(k) because you might...

After T. Rowe Price executives recapped last year's highlights at Tuesday's annual meeting, a shareholder raised concerns about the loss of a top money manager, competition from exchange-traded funds and an Obama Administration tax proposal that could...

(The writer is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.) By Mark Miller CHICAGO, April 23 (Reuters) - Mark Schottland's 401(k) took a beating in the market crash of 2008, and its value plunged 35 percent, to $65,000. But rather than go...