Janet Kidd Stewart

Q. My wife and I are 55 years old. We have $1.3 million saved, spread out among stocks, bonds, mutual funds, CDs, 401(k) and an ING money market account. I...

Are you smarter than Jerome Clark? The former U.S. Naval Academy math instructor is a chartered financial analyst with a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University. He's also the lead...

If there's a single chorus of advice rising from the din of volatile financial markets and a slowing U.S. economy, it would sound something like this: Go global. Except for...

Quick pop quiz: Is saving for retirement a want or a need? You might rush to say it's a need, and a pressing one at that, considering the dire warnings...

Q. I retired from the military a few years back after 20 years. Does the windfall elimination provision reduce my future Social Security benefits? A. A number of factors could...

The notion of a standard retirement age may be fading, but there's still one age -- 70 1/2 -- you really can't ignore. At that age, owners of most workplace...

Now it's easier to put your retirement income on autopilot. Taking a cue from the popular target-date retirement funds, some major investment firms have begun to roll out life-cycle mutual...