Retirement Planning

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RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 08, 2017
Good health is key to retirement security

Incorporating health-care costs into retirement plans can boost an adviser's value.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 08, 2017
As longevity stalls, corporations enjoy a windfall on pensions, benefits

Firms are cutting the estimates of what they'll have to pay retirees, and in some cases, it adds up to billions.

By Bloomberg
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 08, 2017
Health care reform could affect muni bonds

By James Dearborn, Head of Municipal Bond Investments and Senior Portfolio Manager
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 07, 2017
Vanguard outsources some 403(b) record keeping to Newport Group

The firm touts added benefits of the arrangement, but some smaller-balance account holders will wind up paying more.

By Greg Iacurci
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 05, 2017
Financial advice industry has a role in opioid crisis

It's up to financial advisers to keep clients safe from financial fraud or exploitation at the hands of a loved one who is trapped in the clutches of addiction.

By crain-api
One family's story of addiction and finding their way out
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 05, 2017
One family's story of addiction and finding their way out

By Elizabeth MacBride
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 05, 2017
Can financial advisers save clients from the financial ravages of opioid addiction?

About 36% of advisers have worked with clients who were addicted or had family members addicted to opioids, according to a recent InvestmentNews survey.

By Greg Iacurci
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 04, 2017
DOL releases new fiduciary rule FAQs focused on 401(k) plans

Answers touch on how retirement plan advisers should treat certain disclosures about their status as well as recommendations for increasing plan participation and contributions.

By Greg Iacurci
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 03, 2017
401(k) savings continue to hit record highs

Impressive performance reflects resilient stock market and increased employee and employer contributions to retirement accounts.

By Bloomberg
A refresher course on Social Security claiming rules
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 03, 2017
A refresher course on Social Security claiming rules

New "deeming" rules can trip up claiming strategies.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 02, 2017
How to reduce risk when doing 401(k) plan re-enrollments

Advisers should review the plan document and make sure they give participants the right to opt out of the re-enrollment.

By Greg Iacurci
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 02, 2017
J. Mark Iwry, architect of myRA, discusses its demise

A former senior adviser to the Treasury finds resistance to the program 'baffling.'

By John Waggoner
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 02, 2017
A refresher course on Social Security claiming rules

New "deeming" rules can trip up claiming strategies.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 01, 2017
$6 billion hybrid RIA group leaves LPL for Cetera

The three-adviser group, from Alliant Retirement Consulting, specializes in retirement plans.

By Greg Iacurci
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 01, 2017
Today's retirees are better off than previously thought

Millions of older Americans benefit from traditional retirement plans, new research finds.

By Bloomberg
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 01, 2017
The upside-down 401(k) world is about to change

Parts of the 401(k) plan that are currently customized will become mass-produced, and vice versa.

By Fred Barstein
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 31, 2017
Number of experienced defined-contribution plan advisers to grow with DOL fiduciary rule

The most specialized retirement plan advisers control nearly 70% of adviser-held DC assets.

By Greg Iacurci
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 28, 2017
Government to wind down Obama-era retirement savings program

The myRA program was available to workers with no employer-sponsored retirement plan, such as a 401(k), and with little money to invest.

By John Waggoner
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 28, 2017
Americans' savings rate sinks to lowest level in 9 years

Chances are, you aren't saving the way you used to.

By Bloomberg
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 28, 2017
Treasury Department to wind down Obama-era myRA retirement program

The program, which was aimed at workers with no employer-sponsored retirement plan and little money to invest, suffered from low demand and high costs

By John Waggoner