Retirement Trends

Nearly nine out of 10 annuity owners in a recent LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute study said that they were confident about their lifestyle in retirement.

The Social Security Advisory Board has commissioned an expert panel to review the assumptions and methods used by Social Security trustees.

Average retirement balances in Fidelity Investment accounts in the third quarter dropped compared to the second quarter, but theyre up year over year.

A total of 2.1 percent of participants stopped contributing to their plans during the first half of 2014, compared with 1.5 percent during the same period a year earlier, according to the Investment Company Institute in Washington, D.C.

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The funded status in October of the average U.S. corporate pension plan fell to 89.5 percent.