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In honor of National Financial Literacy Month, TIAA-CREF has identified steps Generation Y can take to become financially independent.

Retirement account balances have made a major comeback since the 2008 stock market crash, only 3 percent below their peak, when adjusted for inflation.

Even though the stock market has been on a steady climb the past couple of years, many investors still fear to put their hard-earned funds into something that has been so volatile.

A round-up of the weeks employee benefits news, reports and controversy from around the web

Prudential suggests three straightforward moves: bringing back guaranteed but flexibile income, improve investing and saving behavior and optimizing Social Security decisions.

Pre-retirees are clamoring for safe investment assets. But what qualifies as a safe investment, and are there really any such things out there for people to invest in?