Employee benefits

Stocking away income in company-sponsored plans can provide corporate executive clients tax-free compounded growth on investments.

Health savings accounts are not only for funding immediate medical needs. They offer three distinct tax benefits that make them a powerful form of retirement savings.

Many carriers offering long-term care coverage are experiencing financial woes and may no longer guarantee payments when clients need them.

Charity Charge, Growfund partner to offer workplaces donor-advised funds, cashback credit cards.

A new line of mutual funds can help retirees manage their RMDs – which many fail to take – and avoid the hefty penalty.

Clients are advised to put their savings in accounts with differing tax treatments to better manage the burden in decumulation.

Seniors who have remarried may still qualify for a Social Security divorced spousal benefit on their ex-spouse's record.

Retirees are automatically enrolled in Medicare by the time they reach 65 if they are already collecting their Social Security benefits.

Couples would be better off retiring at the same time, as they face major life changes together. And leaving a career-driven spouse at home in retirement can throw a marriage out of whack.

Claiming the earned income tax and child tax credit may get tougher under Trump’s 2018 budget plan.

Tapping a 401(k) isn’t good idea, so it would need to be the lesser of two or more evils. And they “would have to be pretty evil evils," says an expert.

Here’s what advisers should know about this increasingly available option, so they can help clients make the most educated choice.

Low-cost passive index funds and sticking to an asset allocation plan even during a market downturn overcame some common pitfalls.

Harvesting losses to write off taxable gains is one strategy to address the Trump administration's plan to scrap the 3.8% net investment income surtax.

Retirement investors are better off owning an all-value equity portfolio than a combination of growth and value stocks, data shows.

These banks provide senior-friendly accounts to older customers and offer them rewards such as no-fee checking accounts that earn interest.

President Trump's budget is expected to call for spending cuts on programs intended to help poor households, while keeping Medicare and other programs designed to assist older people.

More people are taking part-time jobs providing housekeeping and other services to seniors who are living independently.

Millennials change jobs more than older generations, but thinking about the future is not a huge priority.

A retiree living off her portfolio suffers hundreds of dollars a year in lost income for every added basis point of fund expense ratio and advisory fees.