Retirement Trends

Transamerica's Center for Retirement Studies says its latest survey once again shows women are at greater risk of failing to achieve a financially secure retirement compared to men.

The core problem of the welfare state is that it relieves people of the need for family to take care of them, but it does not relieve society of the need for caretakers.

Pension obligation bonds being pitched as a remedy to plan funding woes in two states meet a mixed fate from lawmakers.

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.s retirement plan business posted a record year in 2014, as sales rose 23 percent to $9.1 billion, according to a statement from the company.

The DC plans of the countrys Fortune 100 held $776 billion in assets at the end of 2013, a more than 20 percent increase over the previous year.

Forget about common wisdom. Toss out the stereotypes. Merrill Lynch and Age Wave have come up with findings that will turn some of those old ideas on their head.