Retirement planning

Retirees have median savings of $839,000, but many of them are unwilling to spend away their nest egg.

Clients are advised to keep track of their financial information and have a trusted person who knows where to locate it.

As baby boomers exit the workforce, they perpetuate a problem that has long dogged Social Security in that there aren’t enough workers to replace them.

Salary-reduction arrangements can exclude up to $520 each month from a client’s taxable income to cover these expenses.

It's not easy to talk about health and sickness with clients, but advisors must explain the options.

One of the misconceptions is that payroll taxes should be raised and benefits should be cut considerably to save the program.

Parents feel an uncontrollable urge to help their kids, no matter the cost to themselves. Here’s how advisors can help.

A widower wanting to claim at 64 learned he’d have to wait until full retirement age before he’d start receiving benefits.

Advisors should frame health care costs as an annual expense rather than a lump sum, which is demotivating for investors, according to Vanguard.

The court said the in-house SEC judge who handled Raymond Lucia’s case was a constitutional "officer," meaning he should have been directly appointed by the SEC.