Postponing your retirement by a few years can be a surprisingly effective strategy. If you're, say, seven years from retiring ...

The five years before retirement are critical for Americans. Nearly half worry their savings wont last. Boosting ...

There are a plethora of ways to save for retirement. Setting money aside in a savings account or stuffing it into your mattress are simple, relatively risk-free ways to save, but these strategies ...

Retirement planning is not only about financials, but also about redefining one's identity outside of their career.

If you’re a Generation Xer staring down the barrel of your fifties, here’s the uncomfortable truth: You have roughly 10 years to get this retirement thing right. Not “mostly right” or “close enough.” ...

Throughout this year of VERA, VSIP, RIF, DSR, and the new one, DRP 1.0 and DRP 2.0, many employees are trying to hurry up and learn what it takes to retire. This is an update to an article I wrote ...

In their 13-year run publishing the annual J.P. Morgan Guide to Retirement, retirement strategists Michael Conrath and Sharon Carson have seen some big changes in how U.S. households are preparing for ...

As part of this year's "Money Issue" devoted to matters of retirement (airing on August 3), "Sunday Morning" presents this resource guide for those who are retired … and for those planning ahead.

Editor's note: This is the fourth article in a monthly step-by-step guide for getting your financial house in order. We've already brought you info on compiling your net worth statement, asset titling ...