Retirement Trends

More than 12,000 employees of the U.S. government-backed mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will lose their pension plans at the end of the year.

The average amount of money devoted to funding public pension plans equaled 7.9 percent of revenue generated by cities, a survey of 173 municipalities has found.

Some of the largest pension funds in the U.S. and the world are worried that major fossil fuel companies may not be as profitable in the future because of efforts to limit climate change, and they want details on how the firms will manage a long-term shift to cleaner energy...

An attorney representing Detroit urged a judge Wednesday to allow the city to fix staggering financial problems through bankruptcy, arguing that without it about 65 cents of every tax dollar eventually would be gobbled up by debts and other obligations.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. has added a new position: participant and plan sponsor advocate.

Nearly half of Americans are not confident they will be able to save enough for retirement, according to the latest Wells Fargo Middle Class Retirement Study.