Retirement Trends

Rising equities and decreasing bonds prices, along with a higher discount rate, are giving corporate pension funds their best positions in five years.

Women don't save as well as the opposite sex does for retirement because they don't have access to financial advice, says a new survey.

Housing is lagging behind equity markets, a stat that's keeping the National Retirement Risk Index from climbing further.

The costs for a company to keep its pension liabilities or shift them to annuities purchased from an insurance company were nearly identical in October.

Stocks were slightly lower in early trading Tuesday as investors continued to worry about the Federal Reserve winding down its economic stimulus program and weak consumer spending in the United States.

Data from Vanguard suggests that retirees employ spending methods that incorporate market fluctuations.