Retirement Trends

Yes, it turns out, California's teacher pension fund had hundreds of millions invested indirectly in gun companies. Those investments have changed overnight.

Older men and women are better decision makers than their younger counterparts; an ironic development considering the issues of retirement planning.

The private equity firm Cerberus will sell off its ownership in a major U.S. firearms company, a nod to complaints from the California teachers' pension system.

Among their New Year's resolutions, many Americans feel they don't make enough money to worry about financial and retirement planning in 2013.

Business owners who bank on using the assets of their own businesses as their retirement plan are increasingly finding that to be a flawed strategy.

Bonuses on net new assets in 2013 are tied to fee-based flows, loans and other products, though benefits for retiring advisors can be generous.

While pre-retirees look for guarantees and stability in their investments, more innovative annuity solutions will come to the market in the new year.

Long-term interest rates will creep higher as the economy gradually gains strength. The wild card is Washington, where talks are under way to avert tax increases and government spending cuts scheduled to start in January.