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T. Rowe Price suggests many boomers planning early retirement would be better off working through their 60s and saving less.

"Nobody's going to get all the data perfect," notes Tom Fortin, chief information officer at BlackRock, now the world's largest asset manager.

A majority of Americans find retirement planning confusing and want additional help, a study by the ING Retirement Research Institute conducted by the Boston Consulting Group found.

Complexity can be invigorating, as you try to tease out what's happening, get a grip on it and explain it.

Kelli K. Hill has joined Sentinel Investments as vice president and co-manager of the Sentinel Capital Growth Fund, Sentinel Growth Leaders Fund and Sentinel Growth Opportunities Fund, working alongside Elizabeth R. Bramwell, senior vice president and lead portfolio manager of the funds.

The nation's stock exchanges and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Wednesday filed a proposal with the Securities and Exchange Commission to establish a new "limit up-limit down" mechanism that would limit swings in stock prices, during periods of volatility. Under the proposal, trades in listed stocks would have to be executed within a range tied to recent prices for that security.

You might nickname Ivy Funds' new advertising and branding campaign "The Real Portfolio Managers of Overland Park, Kansas."

Wells Fargo Securities will pay $11 million in penalties for misrepresenting—and overcharging for—two complex debt products tied to housing industry performance. The penalties were related to “misconduct in the sale” of two collateralized debt obligations, when the housing market was beginning to swoon in late 2006 and 2007. The conduct by Wachovia Capital Markets, as the unit then was known, violated securities laws in two ways, the SEC said.

It's not when but if and how.

While most of the U.S. continues to endure sluggish or retreating housing prices and foreclosures still remain a persistent blight on the economic landscape, ultra high net worth individuals continue to fork over huge sums to garner real estate in most of the world's most exclusive enclaves.