Retirement Trends

A study of about 85 percent of state and local retirement plans found assets had grown to $2.67 trillion, while liabilities totaled $3.63 trillion by the end of 2012.

More than nine of 10 Americans say they feel it would be at least somewhat helpful is they were given projections of their retirement income.

The Commerce Department's second estimate of third-quarter growth released Thursday was sharply higher than the initial 2.8 percent rate reported last month.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 38 points, or 0.3 percent, to 15,850 in the first hour of trading.

Rising equities and decreasing bonds prices, along with a higher discount rate, are giving corporate pension funds their best positions in five years.

Women don't save as well as the opposite sex does for retirement because they don't have access to financial advice, says a new survey.