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How Much Savings, How Much Growth? (A Guide to Your Own 'Right' Retirement Blend)

Sep 11, 2014

By James O'Brien. The market might be enjoying record highs , but investors are increasingly committed to their cash. And that includes...

State-Created Retirement Plans: New Proposals Aim to Close Small-Business Gaps

Aug 21, 2014

By James O'Brien. More than a dozen states are exploring ways to offer new retirement options to private-sector employees. A number of the...

What Does 'Retirement' Really Mean?

Aug 11, 2014

By Paula Pant. What comes to mind when you think of retirement? The word has very different meanings to different people. For some,...

Can You Count on Your Defined-Benefit Plan?

Feb 24, 2014

A defined-benefit plan is a pension plan where the company promises to pay participants a certain benefit, with the entire cost typically...

Pensions: Who's the Patsy?

Feb 24, 2014

"Will I have enough?" We all ask ourselves this question, and more than once. It strikes at the heart of our own sense of financial...

Defined Benefit Pension Plan Disaster

Feb 24, 2014

To understand how best to develop a financial plan it helps to understand how some plans can go horribly wrong. We need to look no further...

Retirement Dilemma: Pension or Payout

Feb 24, 2014

Picture this: you are getting ready to retire from your company where you have been a loyal employee, working hard for 40 years. The...

Take Advantage of that Employee Retirement Plan

Feb 24, 2014

Your company retirement plan is probably the most important yet overlooked investment tool available for a successful retirement. Let's...

Your Retirement Plan: the Buck Stops Here

Feb 24, 2014

Recent articles in the Wall Street journal have painted a pretty bleak picture about some major companies? retirement plans in danger of...

Is Your Pension Safe?

Feb 24, 2014

Most people assume that promises made to them by their employers are iron clad. For those of us who are self employed we have no employer...

Are Defined-Benefit Plans Extinct?

Feb 24, 2014

Defined-benefit pension plans have been on a steady decline for the last couple of decades, while defined-contribution plans, such as...

Are Company Retirement Plans About to Get Better?

Feb 24, 2014

Depending on your vantage point, I guess this question could be debatable. Yet, to me, it certainly seems like things are about to get...

Pension Reform: So, What's Washington, D.C. Doing About All This?

Feb 24, 2014

In 2005, with Social Security reform having gone nowhere early in the year, pension plan reform quickly took center stage on Capital Hill. ...

Pension Income Planning: Lump Sum or Monthly Fixed Pension

Feb 24, 2014

Retirement Income Planning - Know the distribution options for your 401k and monthly fixed pension now before you retire. Do you ever feel...

Are Pension Plans in America the next Enron?

Feb 24, 2014

As the trial of Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling of Enron draws to a close, most hope this will bring an end to one of the worst chapters of...

Social Security: Are the Forecasts of Doom and Gloom Fact or Fiction?

Feb 24, 2014

Will Social Security eventually go broke and be unable to pay any benefits, or is this a big myth? That was the focus of a seminar I...

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