retirement savings

You can automate your 401(k) retirement savings through target-date funds. But you need to investigate them before investing in them.

This week's Your Money column looks at how much of the conventional advice for retirement savings is heavily dependent on the markets performing well in the decade before retirement.

The bear market led throngs of investors to flee stocks for the relative 'safety' of bonds. But with the economy changing, those investments now threaten our retirement savings.

Prices are falling and yields rising as the bond world sends a message to Washington. The fallout will affect retirement savings, mortgage rates, stocks, gold and more.

A special section on retirement covers new research about how to turn retirement savings into retirement income.

The statistics on retirement savings aren't pretty. But a simple incremental change --made annually -- can make a huge difference.

The U.S. Department of Labor announced two rules Wednesday designed to increase the quality of information American workers use to make retirement savings investment decisions.

Robert Lappin has spent $5 million of his own money to restore the retirement savings of employees at his company, Shetland Properties Inc., and the Robert I.

Lappin Charitable Foundation, whose 401(k) plans were managed by the convicted financier....

For starters, you may not need as much money as you might think, say 2 financial experts who challenge the conventional wisdom.

Watching the stock market spiral downward this year was pretty tough. As the market went south, so did our retirement savings, college funds and other investments.

Kai Ryssdal speaks with Robert Reich about those losses and how we're coping with them.