Big cities like St. Louis aren’t usually thought of as retirement destinations, but Forbes argues that maybe they should be. Cities offer job opportunities to senior citizens who think they may have to go back to work at some point, plus…

When the Government Accountability Office talks about preventing leakage from 401k plans, it isn’t talking about the bear market that siphoned a big gusher of money out of your account. That, presumably, would have been difficult to prevent. Rather, a…

The recession has made retirement a fading dream for many older workers, a new Pew Research Center study finds:

According to the Pew Research survey, nearly four-in-ten adults who are working past the median retirement age of 62 say they have…

Brett Goldstein, who runs a consulting firm called The Pension Department, is petitioning Congress to make a change that he says would help cash-strapped small employers hold on to their 401k plans.  His concern involves top-heavy requirements, which are a highly technical…

For folks fortunate to have an employer match in their 401k plan, failing to contribute would be like passing up free money. That’s a powerful incentive to save. Now, some officials in Washington want more people to have that incentive…

One of the hot new solutions to the retirement-savings problem is the Automatic IRA. (Sometimes it’s also called the Universal IRA, but see yesterday’s post to learn the problems with that name.) There’s one group that doesn’t like it, though:…

Dallas Salisbury, president of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, has long been a go-to numbers guy for anyone writing about retirement issues. On Tuesday, he urged reporters to use data to knock down myths and cut through political rhetoric.

One of…

Our National Press Foundation group heard a lot today about the problems that low-income people have in saving for retirement — or, really, in saving at all. Wilhelmina Leigh, a senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and…

We journalists got a gentle chiding today from Stephen Goss, chief actuary of the Social Security Administration. If you’re going to talk about a problem, it’s important to define it correctly, and we seem to spend a lot of time…

A discussion of children’s issues was about the last thing we expected at a retirement seminar. But Isabel Sawhill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, says America can’t address the concerns of the older generation without affecting the youngest generation, too:

It’s children who…