April 12, 2011
Mention the word "retirement," and most people shudder. The term seems synonymous these days with the phrase, "you can't afford it." More than half of workers in the ...
February 17, 2011
Republicans and Democrats in Washington are starting to battle in earnest over how to cut the federal government's discretionary spending. Eventually the ominous ...
January 25, 2011
As the 79-million-strong Baby Boom generation starts hitting age 65, demographers and medical researchers are increasingly at odds over how long they'll live. It's a ...
January 11, 2011
It's 4 a.m. and Stephanie Halio, a once-retired 67-year-old, is driving a van up and down the highways of South Florida. Why? Blame Bernie Madoff. Shortly after ...
January 9, 2011
Let the retirement parties begin: The oldest members of the 1946-64 demographic wave known as the Baby Boom turn 65 this month. It's up for debate how much that 79 ...
December 12, 2010
A pall has settled over the U.S. housing market. The first-time home buyer's credit has dried up, and home prices are down 29 percent from their 2006 peak. On Dec. 9 ...
November 14, 2010
It sure doesn't seem fair. The co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform have largely given Baby Boomers—the generation that ...
November 14, 2010
Even as U.S. stocks trade at some of their highest prices in two years, individual investors continue to sell, leaving the buying to larger players like hedge funds ...
October 7, 2010
Ten years ago, reverse mortgages were primarily used by widowed or single women well into their 70s with little other means of retirement income. Now, big losses to ...
July 19, 2010
The footsteps of an aging America are hard to ignore, especially with daily alarms ringing over the federal government's debt and deficit. The leading edge of the baby...
July 15, 2010
Mamadou Doukowu had planned to retire in 2016 and start a life of leisure on a state pension. Now, it appears the 54-year-old Paris security guard may have to wait a ...
July 15, 2010
Mixing art and commerce has always been tricky. It's getting trickier in Australia, where workers can stock their retirement savings accounts with paintings and ...
July 15, 2010
Baby boomers fretting over their pensions should spare a thought for Constance DeCherney. Like many of her generation, the 27-year-old Web strategist at Planned ...
July 15, 2010
Annuities. Reverse mortgages. Life insurance pools. Principal-protected notes. The options being offered to senior citizens hoping to ensure a comfortable retirement ...
July 15, 2010
Google my name, and you'll see my photo next to a blog calling me "the most dangerous woman in America." Why does a U.S. News & World Report blog put me up there with ...
July 5, 2010
It's often said that stock investors, eager for gains, see the glass as half full, while bond investors, careful about losses, see the glass as half empty. Now, ...
March 29, 2010
In 1935, Harry Hopkins, head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, took a call at his home from U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morganthau Jr. Both were on the...
March 15, 2010
I've always considered myself a big risk taker. When I was a kid, I jumped out of second-story windows and drove in stock-car races. In 1996, we bought a home in the ...
March 15, 2010
While the stock market was plummeting in the fall of 2008, Brinton Eaton Wealth Advisors, which manages $550 million in client assets, asked a handful of investment ...
March 15, 2010
Revolutions often begin with drama, a powerful upheaval that seizes everyone's attention. The assault on the Bastille in 1789. The armed insurrection in Petrograd in ...
March 15, 2010
Over the past two years, investors have been taken for a wild ride. Annuities offer a way off the roller coaster. That, at least, is the marketing message of the ...
March 10, 2010
(Bloomberg) U.S. workers are more confident about having enough savings for retirement even after the percentage of savers declined, according to the Employee ...
February 24, 2010
Asset allocation has long been the mantra of financial advisers and smart investors intent on minimizing risk through diversification. Now, with the specter of higher ...
January 8, 2010
By Theo Francis (Bloomberg) The Obama administration is weighing how the government can encourage workers to turn their savings into guaranteed income streams ...
November 11, 2009
Ah, retirement! Before the 1950s it was something only the wealthy could afford to do. Everyone else needed an income, and most folks struggled to get by in the ...
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