retirement

You need to set your priorities before building your investment portfolio, according to author and wealth advisor Josh Brown. Here’s how you should start.

If you wait a few years after full retirement age to claim Social Security benefits, you can nearly double the size of your monthly check.

Social Security was designed in part to boost Americans’ income during retirement. Here’s how much your check will be if you make the median U.S. salary.

Democrats want to increase Social Security benefits and restore the program’s solvency. Here’s how lawmakers’ plans could shape future benefits.

If you’re like many Americans, your relationship with money could use some more attention. Staying in the dark will cost you.

Whether it receiving a loan request, your own financial struggle or planning your estate, make sure you communicate in the right way.

Choosing investment properties is better left to the professionals, according to wealth advisor Josh Brown. Here’s how Josh Brown invests in real estate.

No matter what happens on election night, at least three legislative leaders who have been in the Connecticut House and Senate for decades won’t be returning to the state Capitol in January.

Will this year’s presidential election impact your pocketbook? What will it mean for your long-term investments like your retirement? “The market is probably going to take a pause over the next few weeks and then we don’t know. We just don’t know what’s going to happen whether President Trump wins or whether former Vice President Biden wins,” Joel Johnson,...

“It’s an honor to have played here, and only here, for 16 years.” That was the central theme New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning wanted to get across during the press conference he held Friday to formally announce his retirement after 16 years with the Super Bowl-winning team. The event kicked off with a video highlighting Manning’s career and accomplishments — both...

Social Security recipients will get a modest 1.3% cost-of living-increase in 2021, but that might be small comfort amid worries about the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences for older people

One Connecticut Congressman’s bill targets an anomaly that could lower Social Security payments.

If you’ve taken out a loan against your 401(k) savings account and lose your job, it could generate an unexpected tax bill. While recent economic rescue legislation provided some relief for coronavirus-related 401(k) loans, they still are subject to certain existing rules when you separate from your company, whether by choice or not. And that borrowed money could morph...

Labor economist Teresa Ghilarducci began studying retirement in 2008, when the Great Recession was making it impossible for millions of Americans to retire. “The phenomenon of Granny working in McDonald’s really started to ramp up,” said Ghilarducci, who leads the Retirement Equity Lab at The New School in New York.  Yet, as bad as it was then, she sees the current Covid-19 recession...

Financial Advisor Maggie Johndrow explained the law that encompasses financial and retirement planning.

A 102-year-old man who is Indiana’s oldest state employee is retiring after nearly six decades on the job, saying that “your body tells you when it’s time to go.” Bob Vollmer plans to report to work for the last time Feb. 6 as a surveyor for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The southern Indiana man, whose mother lived...

Raising the retirement age is an emotional issue. For evidence, just look at proposals to move up the full retirement age for Social Security. Even the idea upsets advocates who want to see the program expanded and individuals receiving benefits. Because of that, lawmakers tend to tiptoe around the issue. Outside the U.S., French citizens have taken to the...