Spending in Retirement
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U.S. pension assets - the good news and the bad news
By Staff WriterIt might help you sleep at night to know that the U.S. pension system is "better off" than other industrialized nations, according to a new...
January 08, 2009
More workers are preserving retirement assets, study saysFrom the Employee Benefit Research Institute: An increasing percentage of retirement plan participants are preserving their retirement assets in tax-qualified accounts, but a significant number are...
January 08, 2009
UMAs: More than $300 billion by 2013A new report by research and advisory firm Celent shows approximately $327 billion in client household assets will be managed through unified managed accounts by...
January 08, 2009
Stimulus, shmimulusImmature, I know, but I couldn't think of anything better to describe our continuing need to throw good money after bad. Echoing congressional leaders, President-elect...
January 08, 2009
Boomers await Obama's plan to overhaul retiree spendingWith a record $1.2 trillion deficit, boomers await President-elect Barack Obama's plan to overhaul Medicare and Social Security. The plan would be "a central part"...
January 07, 2009
Treasury and IRS increase flexibility for 529 plansA result of the financial crisis, the U.S. Treasury and the IRS are now giving investors more flexibility in managing their 529 plan accounts. A...
January 07, 2009
Affluent investors' net worth declines; many unhappy with financial advisor2010 is a long - very long - time from now for the mass of investors who took a huge financial hit in 2008. Experts...
January 06, 2009
Social Security Administration offers new "Retire Online" application serviceThe Social Security Administration's new campaign for its "Retire Online" application tool boasts the phrase, "it's now easier to retire than ever online." Let's hope...