A well-planned retirement portfolio should ideally be built around several different income buckets. When combined, those sources aim to produce a sustainable withdrawal rate that supports ongoing ...

Investing isn't as difficult as it's made out to be, but it does require some attention. For instance, you must regularly check your allocation to make sure the risk you’re taking is appropriate for ...

Investors and retirement savers who want to own broad swaths of the stock and bond markets often face a choice: Do they want to buy time-honored mutual funds, or upstart exchange-traded funds? If ...

Fidelity is one of the most ubiquitous names in retirement planning. As I'm writing this, Fidelity boasts more than 50 million accounts dedicated toward retirement saving, including workplace plans ...

The Fidelity Freedom Income Fund has been chided by some financial analysts for being too risk averse, but manager Jonathon Shelon says the fund’s demographic—investors who are 10 to 15 years into ...

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If you're making steady contributions to your employer's 401(k) plan, you're doing a very good thing for your retirement. Social Security will only replace about 40% of your pre-retirement paycheck if ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Teresa Ghilarducci Ph.D. is an Economics Professor. The Charade That “Retirement” Accounts Are For Retirement It’s time we stop ...