Workers collect 401(k)s and individual retirement accounts (IRAs) over the course of their careers. Rolling those assets into one convenient account is hard.

Many investment firms want to be ready for potential LGBT clients, so they're training advisors on how to tackle the topic; others need some tips for talking to such clients. Here are some ideas.

Fund companies and retirement plan providers are working on new retirement income products--including this "retirement spending account."

The investment industry has an age discrimination problem, and millennials and Generation X are bearing the brunt of it. Only 30 percent of financial advisers are actively looking for clients under age 40.

This could be the best summer for teen jobs since at least 2008. In the last several months, the teen unemployment rate dipped below 18 percent a big improvement, even if its still triple the rate for the general population.

There are great reasons to wait to have kids. Older parents are often wealthier, more mature, and further along in their careers. But becoming a parent late in life can also really complicate your finances.

If youre scared of an audit by the IRS, theres less to fear these days. New data show that budget cuts at the IRS mean the agency is investigating fewer wealthy taxpayers.

Northwestern Mutual, the nation's second-largest life insurance company, is buying LearnVest, an online financial planning start-up founded in 2009.