Retirement Trends

What drives people to play, and what makes them think their $1 investment among the many, many millions will bring staggering wealth?

Stocks edged lower in early trading Tuesday as the Federal Reserve started a two-day meeting.

Prosecutors say he and former employee Raymour Radhakrishnan paid terminally ill people cash, passing it off as charity, then used their personal information to purchase bonds and annuities that would pay out when the person died.

The top three concerns were risk management (31 percent), low return environment (29 percent) and volatility (24 percent).

Such rollovers from 401(k), 403(b) or 457(b) accounts were expanded this year to be open to any vested funds in a retirement plan that allowed them, but companies were awaiting clarification of the rules.

Fully 70 percent of all companies now offer various forms of education related to saving for retirement.