Retirement

Get Retirement Savings Back on Track

According to research from the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, 27% of U.S. workers have taken some form of loan, early withdrawal or hardship distribution from an IRA, 401(k) or similar plan. But if you’re now looking at your retirement balances and realizing that it’s not enough, it’s time to do some serious heavy lifting to get yourself back on track....

Healthy Life = Happy Retirement

Improving your happiness in retirement can be achieved by doing one thing – that’s not having started saving earlier and more often (though this could relieve stress once retired, which might ultimately help you achieve this one thing). Instead, this key to retirement happiness is actually staying healthy....

Rise of Female 401(k) Millionaires

I’ve written before about the higher barrier to retirement security facing women. So I was heartened to read the following article from the New York Times, which finds that the growth of female 401(k) millionaires has doubled in the past 12 years....