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Many people have enough saved for retirement to claim Social Security later than they do, according to a new study.
A new survey from retirement community firm Provision Living finds that while most Americans think about retirement a lot, their goals and plans to achieve them sometimes fall short.
For most of the last 10 years, fixed-income investors have not had to worry about liquidity. But as volatility has surged, first in stocks and now in credit markets, liquidity is starting to dry up across segments of the corporate bond markets.
Today's volatile financial market is heightening investors' anxiety, in turn threatening retirement accounts and portfolios and depleting investor brain power. Here are 5 ways to get a handle on destructive stress.
The reality is that Social Security can be secured for future generations only by legislation passed by Congress to increase funding or change benefits. However, Social Security is not a hot-button issue for many millennials.
Whatever your hustle, one of your key responsibilities is to make sure your business has a solid financial foundation, especially around taxes. Here are five tips for business tax fitness.
The Wall Street firm is arming its financial advisor force with a platform through which they can manage all of their technology tools.
Everyone wants to succeed and save for a secure retirement, but many of us keep — and even cultivate — bad money habits that will derail our financial future. Here are 9 bad habits to kick now.
Avoid buying investments that have risen too much, and when markets go down, don't sell investments that are not doing well. Why? Because we tend to overreact. Here's how to conduct yourself during anxiety-inducing market gyrations.
Large companies such as IBM, Microsoft and Facebook are investing heavily in the development of blockchain — a new, decentralized, digital-ledger technology that threatens their traditional business models.
Last year, investors in local currency emerging market debt benefited as the MSCI EM currency index rose 3.5 percent against the dollar. This year, it's reversed and with a risk-off mentality in global markets, local currency returns are negative.
In order to build a lasting business, you need to commit all of your time and be selective about your to-do list, one founder says.
The new federal tax law ends deductions on some advisory fees, including those based on the value of assets under management. But the IRS has held that qualified retirement accounts can pay their own expenses.
The fall months are typically weak for muni bonds, and although this year has generally bucked seasonal trends, it looks that way again this year.
The future of financial planning will be radically different, thanks to new technology. Here's how firms large and small are already starting to test the waters with this technology.
A financial advisor in the Washington, D.C., area was convicted of bilking clients out of millions in a Ponzi scheme she sought to protect with voodoo spells. How to avoid linking your financial fate to a potential fraudster.
CNBC's Money Editor, overseeing the Financial Advisor Hub and personal finance. Follow him on Twitter @jimpavia.
There are straightforward ways for retirement investors in need of income to play rising interest rates without being wiped out by falling bond values.
Social Security benefits will get a 2.8 percent boost in 2019. Find out now how much more money you stand to receive.
The yield curve inverted on Tuesday between short-term Treasury bonds and the five-year. It wasn't the "big" inversion — that is when the 10-year yield drops below the two-year. But the situation is alarming. In a word: recession.
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