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By Paula Aven Gladych |
April 25, 2012
According to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Social Security need not be exhausted by 2033 -- if tax changes happen.
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By John Sullivan |
April 11, 2012
New paper from Boston College claims working longer, reverse mortgages more effective strategies.
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By Andy Stonehouse |
April 5, 2012
Prudential suggests three straightforward moves: bringing back guaranteed but flexibile income, improve investing and saving behavior and optimizing Social Security decisions.
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By BenefitsPro staff |
March 26, 2012
The National Retirement Planning Coaliton's events include webinars for advisors, meetings in Washington D.C. and new FINRA tools for retirement planning.
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By Paula Aven Gladych |
March 13, 2012
Nearly a quarter of 401(k) participants invest solely in target-date funds—a six-fold increase over the past five years, according to new Vanguard research.
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By Don Thomopson, Julie Carr Smyth |
December 12, 2011
Guaranteed pensions for relatively youthful government retirees — paid in similar fashion to millions nationwide — are contributing to nationwide friction with the public sector workers. They have access to attractive defined-benefit pensions and retiree health care coverage that most private sector workers no longer do.
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By Paula Aven Gladych |
November 2, 2011
Social Security not only shouldn't be cut as part of the United States’ debt reduction measures, but, according to Merton Bernstein, an expert on Social Security and the Walter D. Coles Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, it wouldn’t take much to ensure Social Security’s viability 75 years...
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By Paula Aven Gladych |
November 1, 2011
A new report by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College looks into how much individuals must save for a secure retirement, based on earnings, the age they started saving, the age they plan to retire and asset returns.
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By Warren S. Hersch |
October 21, 2011
Most households with individuals employed in state and local government can expect to receive at retirement well below the 80% of pre-retirement income needed to maintain their pre-retirement living standards, according to new research.
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By Paula Aven Gladych |
October 4, 2011
State and local workers don't end up with more money at age 65 than their private sector counterparts, according to an issue brief by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
