A survey from American Funds found that there was surprising optimism among one segment of U.S. adults regarding their income in retirement.

Rising interest rates gave mid-50s workers a boost of 4.41 percent in retirement spending power--but an analysis by BlackRock shows that older pre-retirees might be hurt.

The chief executive officer of the California Public Employees Retirement System has announced that she will retire as the head of the largest public pension fund in the country.

Not all states are created equal--especially when it comes to employer retirement plans and who participates. Here are the 10 worst states for both.

Even though Medicare Part D provides seniors with some protection, the high costs for some specialty drugsand the fact that many seniors take multiple medications--is costing them more.

Not only are rising drug costs out of control, but singles end up paying substantially more out of pocket than senior couples for nonrecurring health care services.

States are worried about liability with state-run retirement plans--in spite of the proposed DOL safe harbor. Now critics are attacking the safe harbor proposal. Here's why.

Department of Labor won a judgement to restore $1.3 million to plan participants at one now-defunct company and filed suit in 4 other cases on behalf of workers.