Retirement Trends

Nearly two in five (38 percent) of working adults estimate they will have to work until age 75 or older before they can retire.

The share of Americans 65 and older with mortgage debt rose to 30 percent in 2011 from 22 percent in 2001.

Most (54 percent) say they either wont retire at all or will have to continue to work after they turn 65.

With retirement plan savings coming up short for many Americans, helping clients understand when might be best to begin to draw Social Security benefits has become a hot-button practice area.

MassMutual says the average retirement savings balance for women was up 17 percent from a year ago, and 71 percent from 2009.

Student loan debt, at the crushing total of $1.11 trillion, is taking a heavy toll on what once might have been an unlikely group: parents.