Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with ...

The shift away from pensions (also known as defined benefit plans) to 401ks and other employer-sponsored plans (also known as defined contribution plans) is unlikely to abate anytime soon. Yet even as ...

Financial advisors are charged with considering the long-term well-being of not only their client, but their client’s family. Taking on the mentoring, coaching and — even in small doses — therapist ...

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...

Upon retirement under a qualified pension plan, married workers and their spouses are often faced with making a difficult decision regarding the desired payout election. Basically one of two elections ...

This is the third article in a three-part series on pension election decisions. Today, I will look at a strategy to maximize your pension. As the name suggests, pension maximization can help you to ...

Q: In 1995, when my husband was 60, we took out a $100,000 insurance policy on him prior to his early retirement. We did this so he could take the higher single-life pension rather than the lower ...