Retirement Trends

Oakland's payments to the state pension system jumped from $37 million in 2003 to $89 million in 2012.

Projections of average health costs and average Social Security income streams created by HealthView Services shows that middle-class Americans retirement health care costs are on a path to exceed their Social Security benefit.

There is a movement afoot by retirees to skip retirement in the traditional sense by selling their homes and worldly possessions to go out and see the world.

A little less than one in five (18 percent) consider themselves a highly disciplined financial planner, meaning they know their exact goals, have developed specific plans to meet them, and rarely deviate from those plans.

The city reached agreements two days ago with its two pension systems, after settling with some bondholders last week.

Now, companies looking for lost retirement plan participants will have to do the research on their own.