Retirement Trends

If you needed additional evidence that the funding status of U.S. corporate pension plans saw a lousy 2014, Towers Watson has it.

The New Jersey governor will call for phasing out retirement payments to those with more than $200,000 a year in other income.

Those now retired say they would have stopped working four years earlier, if they could have.

Most Americans, but particularly women and younger people, find the whole concept of managing their finances and, for that matter, money in general, stressful.

The most basic goal of effective college planning is to achieve agreement between spouses, and that's not always easy at all.

Just 19 percent have $250,000 or more set aside for retirement, while a frightening 40 percent have no retirement savings at all.