Retirement Planning

This book is a practical guide to working with your parents to make financial plans and preserve legacies while you both still have the luxury of time.

The Trump administration is ending an Obama program that was designed to be a starter retirement savings account for low- and middle-income workers.

As long-term care insurance premiums keep rising and fewer companies are offering policies, seniors are looking for other ways to help pay for long-term care. Annuity "nursing home doublers" have emerged as a new long-term care option.

The oldest of the 75 million baby boomers have begun turning 70 in 2016. If you are among them, the IRS will likely be expecting you to start cashing out your tax-advantaged retirement savings that you may have spent decades building...

The Department of Labor has issued new rules intended to prevent financial advisors from steering their clients to bad investments by requiring advisers to act in the best interests of their clients.

Seniors with pricier homes now have an increased ability to get a jumbo reverse mortgage in order to raise cash for retirement. As the housing market has improved, jumbo reverse mortgages are becoming more popular even though they carry some...

Passing down a Roth IRA can seem like a good idea, but it doesn't always make the most sense. Before converting a traditional IRA into a Roth IRA to benefit your heirs, you should consider the tax consequences.

Workers in some states will soon have another option to save for retirement. Several states are establishing state-run retirement plans for workers who do not have a plan through their employer.

President Trump signed an executive order calling for a review of the fiduciary rule that was intended to prevent financial advisers from steering their clients to bad retirement investments.