Retirement Trends

While auto features in retirement plans have proved helpful in boosting both participation and savings rates, a new study indicates that they could be a lot more impactful if savings rates were set higher.

A NerdWallet analysis finds that the higher savings rate of millennial parents could allow them to retire with over $1 million more than boomer parents and over $400,000 more than GenX parents.

People are just more knowledgeable about finances in some states, for whatever reason. Here are the 5 most savvy and the 5 least financially savvy states.

The decline of government welfare creates opportunities for governments, employers and private insurers to form partnerships to extend social protection, using fiscal incentives to attract new customers.

Streamlined operations and easier payouts are only some of the benefits that blockchain could bring to the pension planning industry.

Retirees spent on average more than a third of their Social Security benefits on out-of-pocket medical costs in 2014, according to a recent study.