Retirement Planning

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RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 27, 2014
How credits accrue, but don't compound, when you delay Social Security

Future cost-of-living adjustments applied to larger base benefit

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 27, 2014
Advisers weigh in on income disparity

Financial planners share their concerns and actions for mitigating a slow-growth economy and the general trend of wage stagnation.

By CNELSON
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 27, 2014
Don't overlook planning for health care during retirement

Financial planning practices are on a collision course with skyrocketing retirement health care costs, which could lead to higher-than-expected health care costs during retirement.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 27, 2014
Health care knowledge boosts your value

By MFXFeeder
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 27, 2014
Paying more upfront

By Richard F. Stolz
Hurried trip down the aisle nixes widow's survivor benefits
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 23, 2014
Hurried trip down the aisle nixes widow's survivor benefits

Waiting until age 60 or later to remarry preserves Social Security benefits.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 23, 2014
Have the courage to talk about LTC

It's a tough discussion that's not going away. It's only going to get tougher.

By MFXFeeder
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 22, 2014
BlackRock creates U.S. retirement group led by Chip Castille

He will remain head of the DC business; Bruce Wolfe is COO of new business.

By CODONNELL
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 22, 2014
Fidelity playing catch up with ETFs as chief Johnson remains quiet

Mutual fund giant seeing fees, assets decline but 401(k) business strong

By Gregory Crawford
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 21, 2014
Heading down the aisle? Insist on a prenup

Premarital agreements are on the rise, and they're no longer just for the wealthy

By Liz Skinner
Social Security begins paying survivor benefits to same-sex married couples
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 21, 2014
Social Security begins paying survivor benefits to same-sex married couples

To qualify for survivor's benefits, spouses must have been married nine months, except under certain conditions.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 19, 2014
Health savings accounts gain in popularity

They're a great way to save on federal taxes, but state treatments differ widely

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 19, 2014
Taxpayers act with enough incentive

Roth conversions came in at $64.8 billion in 2010, above an expected $26.5 billion.

By Bloomberg
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 19, 2014
Merrill Lynch hires director of gerontology

Cynthia Hutchins takes on newly created role to help advisers deal with aging clients.

By Mary Beth Franklin
Another reason to file and suspend Social Security benefits
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 19, 2014
Another reason to file and suspend Social Security benefits

There is flexibility in lump-sum payouts – but you must be alive to collect them

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 17, 2014
How to break into the 401(k) plan adviser scene

By MFXFeeder
EQUITIES JAN 16, 2014
BlackRock puts the brakes on market-moving analyst sentiment reports

Today's Breakfast with Benjamin features BlackRock's settlement with the N.Y. attorney general. Plus: Stock futures looking up, activist hedge funds rock, a look at 4Q earnings, the myth of cybersecurity, retirement mistakes to avoid and the upside of office relationships.

By Jeff Benjamin
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 14, 2014
Married couples can split Social Security-claiming strategies

But each spouse can chose only one tactic.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 14, 2014
Portability election emerges as new locus of estate planning

With the estate tax exclusion being set at $5.25 million per person, it's easy for affluent clients whose estates don't quite hit that level to write off creating estate plans or building trusts. But even those in-between clients benefit from establishing trusts in select scenarios.

By Darla Mercado
EQUITIES JAN 12, 2014
Goldman calls stock market lofty by most measures

Today's Breakfast with Benjamin includes: Goldman's stock market call, a closer look at Fed policy, lawyers pick apart Volcker rule, retailers and cyber security, combining IRAs, and how not to ignore your client's wife.

By Jeff Benjamin