Retirement Trends

Stocks are opening slightly lower on Wall Street as traders are mostly unimpressed with the latest batch of corporate earnings.

Although the report was optimistic on the whole, of the almost 100 institutional money managers queried, 62 percent said they expect rates to rise in the next three months.

Somewhere in all that data are the answers to the questions retirement plan advisors and their clients ask routinely.

With the average age of investment advisors hovering in the 50s, 25 percent are eyeing retirement themselves within the next decade.

Stocks are rising in early trading on Wall Street led by materials and industrial companies.

The stock market is rising Monday, ahead of the start of earnings season and on increasing confidence that the economy can support profit growth for U.S. companies.