Janet Kidd Stewart

Workers feeling uneasy about their retirement safety nets will find little comfort from a new government watchdog report that is critical of the Labor Department's enforcement of employer retirement-plan laws....

Companies are recruiting former workers back into the fold, another reason to think about your retirement benefits as you walk out, or back in, the door. Kirsten DaSilva, 35, spent...

Long-term care insurance is becoming the Rodney Dangerfield of the retirement world. The product gets little respect in certain circles, and consumers themselves know little about its potential benefits, new...

Q. On a percentage basis, 44 percent of our savings is in my profit sharing at work and my wife's pension. My profit sharing, which makes up most of the...

When's the best time to start saving for retirement? As soon as you start working, goes the mantra of financial experts, with their spreadsheets showing the miracle of compounding. Save...

By the time Candace Kirby and Patrick Letts Jr. say `I do' this summer, they want to be on their way to a solid financial life together. It's not that...

We spend years (we hope) saving for retirement and years (again, we hope) managing the nest egg while in retirement. But what about that pivotal year when we actually hang...

Lincoln Emery isn't panicked yet about the $5 monthly increase in his Medicare Part B premiums this year. After taxes, he's receiving about $38 in cost-of-living adjustments to his Social...

By now you've probably been lectured on the perils of cashing out your 401(k) retirement plan when you leave a job. You'll pay income taxes and possibly a 10 percent...

A reader who lives near Hartford, Conn., recently lamented the lack of sophisticated spending models in retirement, while so many models are now available for the accumulation years. "Saving for...