401(k)

Borrowers can use the temporary student loan repayment fees to strength their financial health. Here are four ways to use these funds to increase your savings or pay down debt.

Rise to the challenge by following these tips.

Are you trying to figure out how to afford retirement? Here are several ways to increase your retirement savings.

Charles Schwab Corp is suing one of its former customers after the retail brokerage allegedly sent more than $1.2 million to an account of the Louisiana woman and then could not get the money back.

When it comes to managing your retirement savings, you'll find that grabbing the low-hanging fruit goes a very long way in terms of your long-term results.

A surge of optimism that the pandemic is on the way out has convinced investors to revamp their playbooks for where to put money.

By avoiding the fees you'll pay for a professional manager, you could end up $360,000 richer in retirement.

A few simple moves on your part could set the stage for the retirement you've always imagined -- one that's fulfilling and devoid of financial stress.

If you're tired of giving away the majority of your income to taxes, there's a way around that. You can legally decrease or completely eliminate your tax bill by taking advantage of some of the perks in the tax code.

Maintaining a solid portfolio during retirement is important. Here's what to do if that milestone is getting close.

The measure will cause many rollovers, in which hundreds of billions of dollars move annually from 401(k)s to individual retirement accounts, to be more heavily regulated. It also gives investors who feel they have been given bad rollover advice the right to file a lawsuit or arbitration claim.

Fidelity Investments' Kathleen Murphy will retire later this year as president of the money manager's sprawling personal-investing business.

Many Americans are inching closer and closer to retirement unsure of whether they have saved up enough to live comfortably during their golden years.

Your early retirement contributions usually end up being the most valuable because they have more time to grow.

A 401(k) usually lets you choose from a handful of mutual funds your employer selected, and sometimes that's fine. But if there aren't any options that appeal to you, there isn't a lot you can do. Your employer might be willing to add some more investment choices if you request it, but it doesn't have to.

Depending on how your retirement funds were invested, your balance may or may not have been growing in lockstep with the market.

While everyone's savings needs will differ, sometimes it helps to see how you compare to others.

During the last recession, the low point for employer-matching contributions was in 2010, months after the economic recovery took hold in mid-2009, according to Vanguard Group Inc.

As a retiree, the last thing you want to worry about is paying out a big chunk of your fixed income to the IRS. Unfortunately, many different sources of retirement income could be taxable, including distributions from your retirement account as well as some of your Social Security benefits.

If you're wondering how your contributions stack up to your peers, recent data from Fidelity provides some insight into this question.