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3 Strategies To Help Protect Retirees During Stock Market Volatility

If you’re retired, what should you do about recent gyrations in the stock market? During 2024, the S&P 500 gained 25% when you include the return from dividends. ...
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10 Tax Breaks for People Over 50

Once you turn 50, and especially after age 65, you may qualify for extra tax breaks. Older people get a bigger standard deduction, and they can earn more ...
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How To Plan Your Retirement For A Life Of Travel

Retirement often feels like the light at the end of the tunnel — a time to relax, enjoy life, and finally pursue the dreams that were put on ...
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Retirement plans are changing in 2025: What to know

An aging population, coupled with fewer companies offering pensions, means that a smaller portion of the population overall is prepared for retirement. The typical household headed by someone ...
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Planning To Retire In 2025? What You Need To Know To Prepare

Key Takeaways To prepare your finances for retirement, consider stashing more money in cash and fixed-income to avoid touching your nest egg if a bear market occurs. If ...
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Home Retirement Retirement-planning Sleep Better in 2025: Slay These Four Retirement Fears

Monsters under the bed aren’t the only thing keeping older adults awake at night. So are fears about retirement, and for good reason. Retirement isn’t cheap; it can ...
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The Social Security Fairness Act is now in the hands of the Senate. Here’s what could happen next.

Decades in the making, the legislation would eliminate a provision that reduces Social Security payments to some retirees who also collect a pension from jobs that aren’t covered ...
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Here’s what a new Trump administration could mean for your money, financial advisors say

Now that Donald Trump has been elected president, many individual investors are wondering what that means for their money. The markets rallied last week on news of Trump’s win, with the Dow Jones ...
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Morningstar: How the 2024 Election Could Affect Your Portfolio

Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5, and the uncertainty can present pitfalls for investors. “There are a lot of emotions involved,” says Dan Lefkovitz, a strategist with Morningstar Indexes ...
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CBS EVENING NEWS: Why the “sandwich generation” struggles to save for retirement

  Many people in their 50s are part of the so-called “sandwich generation” of workers who support both young relatives and aging parents. Roughly 5 million U.S. households ...
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