Retirement income

“Their top holdings are focused on those companies that have benefited in a post-COVID world,” an expert says.

“These are tracking the industries that are supporting the economy and will continue in the post-pandemic world,” an expert says.

It comes as part of “an unprecedented series of extremely low” annual increases, according to an analyst with the nonpartisan Senior Citizens League.

More than 40% of Black and Hispanic adults say they have used money from a savings or retirement account to pay their bills since the outbreak began, a survey finds.

“Investors are going into lower, more passive mutual funds because they don't want to pay the fees,” an expert says.

Could single premium immediate annuities be the answer to ultralow rates?

“Expense ratios matter to most people, particularly when you're looking at these mostly passive funds,” an expert says.

More than 60 million Americans could receive slightly higher benefits next year, according to a nonpartisan advocacy group’s new projection.

To protect client nest eggs, advisors must know which savings vehicles are protected — and they’re not all created equal.

Threats to the program are multiplying and the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a reckoning, according to a new analysis.

Despite some impressive short-term gains, more than half underperformed their peers over the decade.

Sales are tumbling and gravitating to different products as Wells Fargo settles a FINRA case and researchers examine the defunct fiduciary rule.

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Some of the biggest laggards have managed short-term gains of more than 40%.

Fees for the category's best performing mutual funds and ETFs are much like the price of bullion: expensive.

High unemployment, rising virus cases and the upcoming presidential election are causing clients to change their strategies, advisors say.

If clients “looked just three months ago, these numbers would be glaringly different,” an expert says.

A significant push to use the precious metal as portfolio insurance may create a self-reinforcing spiral that upends its appeal as a hedge.