Retirement plan sponsors and participants don't agree on much, according to results of the latest BlackRock survey on the defined contribution market.

Many retirement planning tools fall short in ways that could have a serious impact on the person seeking to retire, says a new report from researchers at Texas Tech University.

Short-term fluctuations in the stock market do not influence when workers call it quits--and in January 403,000 American workers and their spouses were awarded their first Social Security check.