Retirement Trends

Verizon Communications' fourth-quarter losses escalated, dragged down by restructuring, pension and Superstorm Sandy costs.

Florida's Supreme Court has approved moves to force state employees to contribute cash to their own retirement plans.

The product provides group LTD insurance to protect employees participating in a company's 401(k), 403(b) or 457 plans, protecting them in case of disability.

Demographics mean that the not-too-old, but not-young-enough boomer generation has dramatically undersaved for its needs. Advisors can help them catch up.

Federal Reserve officials in 2007 badly underestimated the scope of the approaching financial crisis and how it would tip the U.S. economy into the deepest recession since the Great Depression, transcripts of the Fed's policy meetings that year show.

Can a new federal watchdog do what the SEC, the DOL and even FINRA haven't been able to do when it comes to protecting retirement plans in the U.S.?