Contributing a little bit of money to your individual retirement account (IRA) each month could be the key to retiring ...

In the first year of the Labor Department's Retirement Savings Lost and Found database, 29.5% of users found an old workplace ...

Growing a retirement account to $1 million depends heavily on how early you start investing. At a conservative 6% annual rate of return, a 35-year-old needs to save about $863 per month to reach $1 ...

While you can postpone taxes, you can’t avoid them altogether. Just work to pay them when they will cost the least. Making the most fiscally-effective IRA decision will require at least a little bit ...

Choosing the right accounts to save into can help younger and lower-asset households, according to a recent report by Hearts & Wallets. “Saving allocation across account types is an important ...

In a world that usually encourages us to add more — more accounts, more options, more complexity — there may be value in ...

If you’re actively saving for retirement, now’s a good time to review the contributions made so far this year to your retirement accounts to see if you’re on track to meet your 2025 retirement savings ...

Americans' 401(k)s add up to around $10 trillion total—equivalent to about 10 percent of all publicly listed stocks and bonds in the U.S., and almost twice what the federal government spends in a year ...

Hopkins said it’s a little “misleading” to think of Roth and traditional 401(k) plans as entirely separate savings vehicles. They’re fundamentally the same type of account — employer-sponsored ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Teresa Ghilarducci Ph.D. is an Economics Professor. The Charade That “Retirement” Accounts Are For Retirement It’s time we stop ...