Retirement Planning

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RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 25, 2013
Take Five: REITs act as hedge

Real estate best equipped to handle jump in rates, portfolio manager says.

By Jeff Benjamin
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 23, 2013
LPL to break into estate planning for mass affluent

Subsidiary Private Trust Co. putting IRA into a packaged product.

By Darla Mercado
Milevsky sells retirement analytics firm to Cannex
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 18, 2013
Milevsky sells retirement analytics firm to Cannex

Deal will help advisers model annuities under varying client circumstances.

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 18, 2013
Pensions can offset benefits

Windfall elimination provision can cut size of a worker's retirement benefit.

By Mary Beth Franklin
Design of 'top hat' plans benefits high earners
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 18, 2013
Design of 'top hat' plans benefits high earners

Originally designed to allow a company's highest-paid executives to defer their annual cash bonus, nonqualified deferred-compensation plans have evolved into flexible, multiuse executive retirement plans — with investment options similar to their qualified-retirement-plan counterparts.

By Joanne Wojcik
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 18, 2013
Meet the real 'Golden Girls'

Shared housing could improve the retirement prospects of single baby boomers. Mary Beth Franklin has some real-life stories.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 16, 2013
401(k) plan optimization generating maximum interest

Sponsors increasingly asking advisers about ways to boost participants' results

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 16, 2013
You handle it: 401(k) savers turning assets over to financial pros

Number of Vanguard plan participants investing in professionally managed offerings up 50% since 2007; diversification more diversified

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 14, 2013
Allianz Life to launch indexed annuity for B-Ds, wirehouses

Product with built-in income rider set to debut Oct. 14.

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 14, 2013
'Friendly' trust services encourage retention over generations

Predictable client base can increase the price tag of your practice.

By CNELSON
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 13, 2013
Financial pros urge caution in wake of Detroit's bankruptcy filing

Investors may find themselves in unfamiliar territory related to the fiscal collapse

By Jeff Benjamin
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 13, 2013
'Uncharted waters' for Detroit's municipal retirees

Municipal workers' benefits hanging in the balance amid bankruptcy filing.

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 13, 2013
Small mutual fund finds alpha in the boardroom

Catalyst Insider Buying Fund generating outsized returns; up 22% for the year

By Jeff Benjamin
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 12, 2013
Don't be fooled by Social Security benefits estimates

Why your statements may not reflect reductions for non-covered work

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 11, 2013
W.P. Carey joins nontraded-REIT liquidity conga line

By Andrew Leigh
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 11, 2013
Hutcheson's tumble offers lessons

ERISA has teeth, outsourcing takes work are just two.

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 11, 2013
ERISA lawyers: Professor's take on 401(k)s is bunk

Say plan sponsors should follow 'prudent process' to evaluate service providers.

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 09, 2013
Getting personal with Social Security-claiming strategies

Advising my brother's widow on when to claim survivor benefits.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 07, 2013
Alleged Ponzi scheme bilks investors out of $300 million

Lawsuit claiming money manager touted triple-digit returns holds cautionary lessons

By Michael Shagrin
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 07, 2013
401(k) advocate Hutcheson gets 17 years for stealing client cash

401(k) advocate Matthew Hutcheson gets 17 years for stealing client cash; $5M went to home repair, stake in golf resort. Darla Mercado reports.

By Darla Mercado