Janet Kidd Stewart

Last week's column laid out a framework for creating a retirement balance sheet. It focuses on today's retirement assets, long-term debt and qualitative measures on items such as personal savings...

It's the question everyone wants to know about retirement, and it's one of the hardest to answer: Am I on track? Complex modeling software can forecast whether your portfolio will...

Pension bailouts are mounting, but even if your pension isn't in trouble -- or you don't even have one -- there are things you should know about what's happening now...

Pension bailouts are mounting, but even if your pension isn't in trouble -- or you don't even have one -- there are things you should know about what's happening now...

Not saving a dime in a 401(k) or an IRA? Uncle Sam wants you. The Obama administration's plan to bring retirement accounts to more working people, a concept known as...

Q. If my company lays me off before I turn 66 next year, can I collect unemployment or will I be forced to take my Social Security early? I don't...

Q. After working for a hospital for 30 years, my wife is losing her job. She will get a 36-week severance package that includes health insurance into early 2010. How...

A decade or so before retirement, managing your health may be as important as taking care of your wealth. Ignoring key screenings, indulging in negative habits or skipping medications in...

When a new law suspended required distributions from retirement accounts this year, perhaps you vowed to forego a payout to give your account time to recover. But did you run...

Lost a job a few years shy of your planned retirement date? A government subsidy is helping people bridge the gap for health insurance between jobs. The federal economic recovery...