Retirement savings

All that advice about taking a deep breath, focusing on the long term and not obsessing about the balance in your retirement accounts as the markets take a wild ride sounds a lot better when you’re not headed toward retirement soon. Click the audio player above to hear the full story. 

IRAs were created to give people without employer-sponsored retirement plans a tax-free incentive to save.

Lew argues for transparency, not controls, when it comes to currency manipulation.

Lost wealth from the recession and longer life expectancy are partly to blame.

Federal regulators are proposing new rules to protect retirement savings. As part of Obama’s stated plan to bolster the middle class, the Labor Department proposed changes to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The rules are designed to protect retirees from investment brokers who put their own financial interests above their clients and eliminate conflicts […]

The average household nearing retirement has just $110,000 socked away in retirement accounts, one expert says.