Retirement

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RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 06, 2014
Social Security cost-of-living adjustments projected to increase slightly in 2015

Typical expenses continue to outpace annual benefit hikes.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 05, 2014
Learning how to handle stressed clients

Deal with clients at tense moments in their lives requires first-hand experience

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 03, 2014
How to make the 401(k) cash pile last for life

The hard questions: Spend now to enjoy healthy years and risk running out of money? Or scrimp today for a tomorrow that may never come -- or come only when you're too infirm to savor it?

By Bloomberg
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 03, 2014
A 401(k) conundrum: Can you make cash pile last for life?

Little thought – or government help — is given to the question of how to make withdrawals from a retirement plan

By Bloomberg
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 03, 2014
Supreme Court decision on 401(k) fee case could have domino effect

Where the court stands on a six-year statute of limitations could shape how fiduciaries serve retirement plans and participants.

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 03, 2014
Supreme Court decision on 401(k) fee case could have domino effect

Where the court stands on a six-year statute of limitations could shape how fiduciaries serve retirement plans and participants.

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 02, 2014
Tom Clancy's final plot twist is a big estate fight over taxes

Lesson learned: Settle the questions beforehand by funding trusts

By by Andy and Danielle Mayoras
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 02, 2014
Why financial advisers still hate reverse mortgages

Tapping your equity in retirement can increase your income, but trap you when you need to move.

By Bloomberg
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES OCT 02, 2014
No big price increases for Lincoln National annuities

CEO Dennis Glass lays out insurer's strategy for when interest rates rise.

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 02, 2014
Medicare: The next frontier

As health care costs in retirement rise, many advisers and clients still haven't accounted for a major part of those expenses: Medicare.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 01, 2014
Which earnings don't reduce Social Security benefits?

Find out what you can do in retirement that won't count toward the earnings test.

By Mary Beth Franklin
EQUITIES OCT 01, 2014
Pimco Total Return takes big hit

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Gross leaves and the cash follows. Plus: A new robo-adviser enters the market; Schorsch at it again, with a twist; corporations are healthy, healthy, healthy; oil prices are falling; and Elon Musk's next move.

By Jeff Benjamin
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 01, 2014
Dispatch from the retirement front

<i>InvestmentNews</i> contributing editor gives an update on how life has changed since her husband retired.

By Mary Beth Franklin
EQUITIES SEP 30, 2014
The dangerous downside of the stronger dollar

Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu covers the U.S. dollar threatening to knock markets off balance, riding an ETF back into commodities, retirement plans turning on the Pimco Total Return Fund, and more.

By Jeff Benjamin
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 29, 2014
Housing recovery on horizon, but is it too little, too late for retiring boomers?

Median sale price of existing homes rose more than 5% in September

By Liz Skinner
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 29, 2014
Firms challenged to create innovative retirement income products

Successfully addressing the post-accumulation phase and providing simplicity still difficult for the industry.

By Darla Mercado
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES SEP 29, 2014
Finra charges SWS with improper supervision of VA transactions

SWS Financial Services charged with green-lighting variable annuity applications without proper review for suitability.

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 29, 2014
Do you speak Social Security?

Many advisers are conversant, but not fluent, in claiming strategies and rules.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 29, 2014
Jay Wintrob resigns as CEO of AIG Life and Retirement

He had been in contention to succeed Benmosche as head of AIG.

By Bruce Kelly
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 29, 2014
Advice industry adapts to changing concept of retirement

As people live longer, the distribution phase becomes more critical

By Mary Beth Franklin