Lawyers representing Fairfield, Conn., asked the state's Appellate Court on Thursday to reverse a lower court ruling that the town cannot make claims for losses due to disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's fraud.

With a wider choice of investment options in their retirement plans, participants are picking twice as many mutual funds to include in their plan portfolios, said the Spectrem Group in a report issued Wednesday.

Almost 40 percent of working Americans plan to retire after age 70, or not at all, according to a new survey from Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies.

Wonder where you’ll spend your last days? It might depend on where you live.