Saving for Retirement
Learn about traditional and new methods of saving for retirement, including products and ideas on how advisors can help clients save for retirement.
Beyond the B Word
By Marie SwiftSoaring gasoline prices have been a wake up call to many people. Watching pump dials spin like some out-of-control slot machine that ends with a...
June 27, 2006
Workers Have Trouble Emptying NestsMany U.S. consumers say they are having trouble saving for retirement because they are supporting adult children.Researchers at Allstate Corp., Northbrook, Ill., have reported that ...
June 25, 2006
When Boomers Become GrandparentsRetirement planning weighs mightily enough on the leading edge of boomers now reaching age 60. A potential complication for many of these aging hipsters, and ...
June 14, 2006
Boomers' Inheritance: Windfall Or Pratfall?Predictions of inheritance windfalls for baby boomers are overstated significantly, a new AARP study suggests.As of 2004, 81% of boomers--those born between 1946 and 1964--had ...
June 14, 2006
Workers Warm To Auto Sign-Up, Principal FindsPrincipal Financial's latest Well-Being Index survey finds 59% of working Americans agree employers should automatically enroll employees into their 401(k) retirement plans.That is well up ...
June 06, 2006
MetLife Sells Nonprofit Plan Roth AccountsTeachers and hospitals may get a chance to put post-tax income into employer-sponsored retirement plans, then withdraw cash tax-free later.The MetLife Resources unit of MetLife ...
June 01, 2006
The long echoIn his 2006 State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush outlined what is going be one of the defining issues that face our nation in the immediate future. He said, "This year the first of about 78 million baby boomers turn 60, including two