Retirement Trends

Only 15 percent of workers reported an increase in their expected retirement age in the past year, compared to 22 percent in 2013.

A civic task force recommends that Jacksonville raise taxes to meet soaring retirement costs that have left a pension fund in Floridas most populous city with 39 percent of what it needs.

The Federal Open Market Committees omission of quantitative benchmarks to guide changes in interest rates creates uncertainty about the extent to which the Committee is willing to use monetary stimulus to foster faster growth, Kocherlakota said in a statement.

Proponents, led by San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, delayed the measure until 2016 to improve its chances of passage.

Poorly structured policies implemented over the past few decades by states and cities are threatening retirement security for public school teachers, according to a new report published by Bellwether Education Partners.

The cost of purchasing annuities from an insurer as a way to pass off pension liabilities stayed about the same in January, at 108.5 percent of the accounting liability of a defined benefit pension plan.