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Retirement

Abundant experience, wide networks and personal capital help to make people over 50 particularly successful in starting small businesses

A career coach finds wisdom in a popular online word game

Advice for tenants who are wrestling with rent increases of 28% on average over the last three years

Stocks have moved higher this week despite rising expectations for another big rate hike later this month.

Fed officials are warning that they won’t pause or reverse rate hikes anytime soon.

These documents are an important part of a good retirement, end of life, and estate plan. Their purpose is to make sure your wishes are carried out when you aren’t able to do it yourself.

Everyone wants to reach a “successful retirement”. There is much more to it than financial security. Structure, purpose and community can help ward off a common problem in retirement: depression. See what it takes to really succeed in the next phase of life after working full time.

Imagine that, instead of our current chaotic, dangerous, and needlessly expensive patchwork of care for seniors, the US had a well-coordinated care model that leverages and supports paid aides, family caregivers, safe and appropriate housing, and new technology.

For many families, trusts can be a useful vehicle for passing wealth to the next generation or generations.

Investors “aren’t all that eager to buy the dip” as stocks continue to fall following three weeks of losses.

There are chronic political threats: some politicians and advocates want to privatize the program and cut benefits.

Stocks added to losses this week despite a strong August jobs report.

Whether you should worry about declining life expectancies depends on who you are and choices you make.

The headline is dramatic, but "life expectancy" does not mean what you (probably) think.

From the great resignation, work from home, to quiet quitting, our idea of work is changing. One trend receiving less attention, but likely to have far greater and longer-term impact on work and retirement, is quiet returning. Retirees are returning to work and the reasons why will surprise you.

Widespread market uncertainty could make what is historically a bad month for stocks even worse, experts warn.

A strong jobs report wasn’t enough to avoid another selloff to start the month.

If you are the winner of a billion-dollar lottery, there are some important time-related financial decisions you need to make.

Audits could very well rise for the self-employed or solopreneurs after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. Make sure to button up these common issues the IRS eyes at tax time.

The overlooked minority are non-affluent retirees whose fears of running out of money could be largely resolved by integrating existing retirement plan components.