Retirement planning

Medicare Part B premiums will stay flat next year, but most retirees will still pay more.

Clients should consider tax breaks such as education expenses, mortgage interest payment and small business costs.

Attracting them means knowing what’s really important (hint: it’s not retirement).

Advisors should contact every client who did a Roth conversion in 2017 to discuss a key change in tax regulations, Ed Slott says.

Workers can improve the odds of getting bigger Social Security benefits after they retire by asking for a salary raise from their employer.

Retirees should remain invested in stocks even if they have to scale back their exposure to this investment type, experts say.

Winding down a long and successful career often comes with angst. Follow these steps to make the process a little bit easier, Bob Veres says.

Variable products suffered their worst quarter in two decades, while fixed contracts also declined.

A new body of research suggests an ideal retirement-planning approach may exist — but buyer beware.

One-third of households headed by Americans aged 65 and older derive 90% of their retirement income from Social Security, according to a GAO report.