Retirement Planning

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RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 11, 2014
Limits to stretch IRAs floated to pay for highway repairs

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 11, 2014
Advisers proceed with caution following inherited IRA ruling

Recent Supreme Court decision preventing bankruptcy protection for these assets calls for careful planning strategies.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 09, 2014
Thousands join the national tiny house trend

Free from big mortgages, they say downsizing has won them economic freedom.

Social Security planning comes to the workplace
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 09, 2014
Social Security planning comes to the workplace

Social Security planning has taken a giant step into the workplace, and retirement planning may never be the same. Mary Beth Franklin calls the addition of claiming strategies to retirement income tools a possible game changer.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 08, 2014
Surrender fees haunt legacy 403(b) plans

As employers move to lower-cost retirement options, some plans charge as much as 8% to switch.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 08, 2014
Missouri bars pension advances for public workers

Show Me State's action follows heightened regulatory scrutiny.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 08, 2014
SEC hits American Pension Services and its founder with fraud charges

APS, a third-party administrator, allegedly caused investors to lose $22 million

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 07, 2014
An editor tests the reality of retirement: 24/7 togetherness

More than half of working retirees report taking a break from work when they first retired, as Mary Beth Franklin's husband plans to do.

Doing the math on a retirement annuity
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 07, 2014
Doing the math on a retirement annuity

Spending $125,000 now could earn you $40,000 a year after you're 80.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 07, 2014
The high taxes on art purchases might surprise you

Here's how to lower that extra, hidden cost: The secret is a like-kind exchange, but using one to save in the art market is a little more complicated than using one in the real estate world.

RETIREMENT EQUITIES JUL 07, 2014
Most investors missed the Dow's early fireworks

Today's <i>Breakfast with Braswell</i> covers investors missing out on the Dow's latest rally, another gender bias suit hitting Wall Street, and much more.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 07, 2014
Undoing a hasty Social Security claiming decision

There are remedies, but your clients may not like them.

Early filers regret Social Security claiming decisions
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 04, 2014
Early filers regret Social Security claiming decisions

Survey shows many retirees wish they had waited to begin taking benefits.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 03, 2014
Finra, SEC at odds over disclosure of bad behavior by brokers

In today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>, Finra and the SEC's mixed messaging over how much badly-behaved brokers need to disclose stirs up new discussion, plus more on Millennials, Obamacare and the Ukrainian conflict.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 01, 2014
Mutual fund fees in 401(k)s move lower, industry group says

A trade group's study says tough competition between fund managers is driving fees down &amp;mdash; but investors still may not be getting a good deal. Compare your fees to the averages.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 01, 2014
IRS cracks down on U.S. citizens living overseas

New taxes on foreign bank accounts and investments aim to limit tax evasion, but at what cost?

RETIREMENT EQUITIES JUL 01, 2014
The grim reality of inflation without wage growth

On Friday's menu: Inflation without wage growth: Cause for concern? Plus: The Fed has painted itself into a corner, consumer stocks are likely to take a hit, bracing for Treasury yield volatility, silver outshines gold in June, and how to live to be 100.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 01, 2014
Target date funds to capture 63% of 401(k) contributions by 2018

Risk management, asset allocation features appeal to younger investors, study finds.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 30, 2014
Guaranteed features propel indexed-annuity sales

With low interest rates providing few fixed-income investment options, broker-dealers see these as a good choice for clients, with more growth potential than CDs.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 30, 2014
Genworth eyes new approach to long-term-care insurance rate hikes

The firm is advocating for incremental changes over double-digit rate hikes after many years. But can this new method catch on?