Janet Kidd Stewart

From 50,000 feet, your retirement doesn't look so good. Bearish financial markets, gloomy long-term projections for stocks, a sputtering economy -- and that's just the big picture. Down at eye...

Q: You wrote in a column that there is a one-time reprieve from early-withdrawal penalties if you cash out. I am recently divorced and my ex has his 401(k) account...

Retirement savers have been plowing money into foreign stocks, but experts say many are failing to consider taxes and how the investments fit within their overall plan. Foreign stock mutual...

Q: My husband and I are both 66 and still working [but] would like to retire soon. We receive a total of $2,825 monthly from Social Security. We are losing...

Spurred by record sales last year and the coming wave of retiring Baby Boomers, annuity providers are racing to add even more bells and whistles to the already complex investments....

It seems like the perfect pitch for retirees: a financial product that protects principal and offers some growth potential to help fight inflation. Or still a decade or so from...

Have retirement savers lost too much control over their workplace savings plans? Federal employees and millions of private-sector workers with 401(k) plans now face limits on trading within their retirement...

Q: I am 63, my wife is 61, and we both still work. Our goal is simple: We want to maximize our net retirement income. If we have too much...

You can work, shop and fall in love online. Now many people are retiring there too. Thousands of federal employees are becoming eligible to initiate their retirement from the government...

If you could retire, but it meant a substantially lower living standard, would you do it? For many savers, the answer is no. Retirement replacement, the percentage of preretirement income...