Retirement Advisor

Downbeat economic news from around the world renewed worries over the state of the global economy on Thursday and hit already fragile confidence in stock markets.

Sales of variable annuities jumped 16 percent in the second quarter, according to research organization LIMRA and its 2011 U.S. Individual Annuities Sales survey.

Rattled investors pulled more than $40 billion from mutual funds in a single week this month as fears about the global economy intensified.

Retirement plan professional groups are asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to stick with the current registration process for continuing education (CE) programs.

Yale's chief investment officer embarrasses himself by citing misinformed reasons to support fiduciary standard.

According to Forbes, there are 13 mistakes plan participants make with their 401(k). Id like to add No. 14: no plan for how they wont burn through their savings after they retire.

If markets continue to be volatile after Standard & Poors downgrade of U.S. debt to Double-A+, pension funds will attempt to minimize their losses and buy bonds, says Brett Goldstein, president of The Pension Department in Plainview, N.Y.

Q and A with Robyn Credico, senior consultant with Towers Watson