With the potential for further increases in interest rates, 401k plan advisors keep a close eye on bonds and bond funds.

With trillions of dollars at stake nationwide, a dispute is raging over how best to calculate pension values, leaving school districts, municipalities, states and public employee groups to wonder whether they're at risk.

Dimensional Fund Advisors takes a look at retirement savings from an angle considerably different from the one-size-fits-all recommendations typically seen.

After so much unfavorable press, it fights back, asserting Americans today have higher levels of resources to draw on in retirement than previous generations.

The blank slate approach proposed by two leading lawmakers for reforming the tax code will eliminate all tax deductions, no matter how worthy.

Policy experts and politicians are increasingly calling for some sort of mandate at the employer level.

Will you or your client be one of the 70 percent of people over 65 who will need long-term care at some time in your life? Genworths annual study on the cost of LTC indicates that if you are, you will unsurprisingly be paying more for it.

Increasingly, employers use automated retirement plan features to boost employee participation. With it, participation soared above 90 percent, but is everyone happy?