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Understanding your full retirement age (FRA) is crucial for maximizing Social Security benefits. It marks the age at which ...

Timing your Social Security benefits is one of the most important financial decisions you can make. Delaying your claim increases your monthly benefit, but you forego potentially years of Social ...

There are several conversational tracks taking place in today’s 24-hour news cycle that keep one’s financial future top of mind. These include Social Security instability and increased living expenses ...

It figures that retirement anxiety spiked with the financial crisis, but take a look at this chart to see the depth of the problem, which extends both before and beyond the jump in 2008. Numbers ...

The financial decisions you make in midlife can have an outsized influence on how well you live in retirement.

Despite the fact that the baby boomer generation has amassed an impressive amount of wealth and assets, their retirement ...

It is widely cited in the media that households that work with a financial advisor tend to have significantly higher levels of retirement confidence (or more generally financial well-being). For ...

Current stock-market valuations mirror 1968, when stocks and bonds were on the brink of more than a decade of weak returns Today's stock market is even further ahead of itself than it was at the end ...