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What you can learn from the timing of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck's divorce
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 08, 2015
What you can learn from the timing of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck's divorce

The benefits of filing after a key anniversary may be worth the wait.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 08, 2015
Is Billy Joel the poster child for the Viagra college fund?

Older dads can trigger Social Security benefits for young children.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 08, 2015
Changing jobs? New technology aims to help you find the best way to invest your 401(k)

Figuring out your fees shouldn't require reading pages of fine print.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 08, 2015
Financial lessons from the timing of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck's divorce

Benefits of filing after a key anniversary may be worth the wait.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 08, 2015
Wells Fargo faces major test of broker liability for selling F-Squared

A 68-year-old widower claims wirehouse did insufficient due diligence on the troubled money manager.

How to clarify the murky regulations governing IRA rollovers
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 07, 2015
How to clarify the murky regulations governing IRA rollovers

DOL should craft an exemption for when a fiduciary retirement plan adviser is called on to assist with a rollover decision

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 07, 2015
Widowed or divorced? Key steps for ensuring your financial well-being

Women often need to get up to speed on finances in a fire-drill fashion and make some very critical decisions following widowhood or divorce.

Social Security consolation prizes for divorced spouses
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 07, 2015
Social Security consolation prizes for divorced spouses

Ex-spouse can claim independently and is not subject to family maximum limit.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 06, 2015
There's saving — and then there's financial hoarding

Are you a prudent saver, or has over-saving become a pathology?

RETIREMENT EQUITIES JUL 06, 2015
The Fed has painted itself into a corner, and is only trying to manage expectations

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> An economist says Janet Yellen and the Fed are too chicken to raise rates, but at the same time the FOMC is trying to reassure markets that rate hikes will be slow and deliberate.

Social Security claiming strategy short-circuited by excess earnings
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 02, 2015
Social Security claiming strategy short-circuited by excess earnings

Both older nonworking wife and younger employed husband can lose benefits.

Growing consumer demand for health care and Social Security advice
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 02, 2015
Growing consumer demand for health care and Social Security advice

Report shows an opportunity for advisers with this expertise.

IRS shuts lump-sum window for retirees already receiving benefits
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 01, 2015
IRS shuts lump-sum window for retirees already receiving benefits

Defined benefit plan sponsors can no longer replace annuity payments with lump-sum distributions to retirees and their beneficiaries.

Advisers' big opportunity in the small 401(k) plan space
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 01, 2015
Advisers' big opportunity in the small 401(k) plan space

Small plans desperately need advisers to increase understanding, build an education policy and educate participants.

Same-sex couples inch closer to full Social Security benefits
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 01, 2015
Same-sex couples inch closer to full Social Security benefits

Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Wednesday that federal marriage benefits soon will be available to same-sex couples nationwide following the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26.

What same-sex couples should know about Medicare
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 01, 2015
What same-sex couples should know about Medicare

More gay couples than ever will have access to Medicare benefits, but certain rules apply.

Insurance industry wants DOL to telegraph changes to fiduciary
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 01, 2015
Insurance industry wants DOL to telegraph changes to fiduciary

Proposal would require brokers working with IRAs and other retirement accounts to act in their clients' best interests, increasing the number of financial advisers who are deemed fiduciaries.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 30, 2015
Young job changers must avoid making this huge mistake

Cashing out your 401(k) is a bad idea at any age, but it can really hinder millennials and Gen X-ers from achieving their retirement goals.

SEC exams target advisers' retirement-saving guidance
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 30, 2015
SEC exams target advisers' retirement-saving guidance

Exams add scrutiny to an industry debating proposals that brokers act in client's best interests.

RETIREMENT EQUITIES JUN 29, 2015
Crazy as it might sound, the new all-in bet is going long on Greek stocks

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: If you've got a really strong stomach, the time looks ripe to buy the fear and jump into Greek equities.