Retirement Trends

According to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, debt among retirees has surged from 10 percent to 18 percent of their assets.

Encouraging news from Europe and China sent the stock market higher in early trading despite another batch of bleak earnings from retailers.

The EBRI's 2013 Retirement Confidence Survey found that fewer than half of workers surveyed have ever tried to calculate what they need to save for a comfortable retirement and thats not a new finding in a survey that now spans nearly a quarter-century.

A white paper produced on behalf of The Center for Due Diligence offers fiduciaries a dozen best practices when working with tactical asset allocation strategies.

The good news? It had a banner year last year, with almost a 13 percent return on investments for 2012.

More than half of those surveyed said they are putting away the same amount now as they were a year ago. Of those remaining, 18 percent said theyve increased their savings rate and 17 percent have decreased it.