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Growth opportunities aren’t what they used to be in the retirement planning business.

By some accounts, I just spent the past week in “retirement″.

As anyone who has (or has been) a teenager can attest, motivation is a tricky business. Once upon a time, it took little more than a smile or...

Over the past several years, it has become “fashionable″ in some quarters to bash the workplace retirement savings plan; most frequently, the 401(k).

This coming Friday, the nation will, in large part, set aside its normal business for a three-day weekend filled with cookouts and fireworks displays, as we commemorate the...

The new year ushered in some important provisions that directly affect qualified retirement plans.

Having just spent most of the past week in Chicago at our annual Plan Designs conference (bigger and better than ever, I might add!), my head is still...

My dad has been on my mind a lot of late—for no particular reason that I’ve been able to identify.

More than a decade ago, my mom was getting her finances ready for retirement.

I spent some of my precious three-day weekend perusing Teresa Ghilarducci’s When I’m Sixty-Four, an intriguing title for a book about pensions–or, as the subtitle suggests, “The Plot...

The Supreme Court’s recent 401(k) ruling should be a warning.

Last week, AARP published a report on how economic worries are impacting Americans.

Last week, the Connecticut legislature didn’t get around to voting on a bill that would have effectively set up a state-sponsored 401(k) plan for small businesses.

There’s been a lot of talk about tax policy of late.

I was discussing the subject of retirement the other day with a friend.