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The risks and costs of having too many bank, retirement, savings and other financial accounts are many. Tax time is a good time to take inventory.

FALLING retirement village valuations had carved as much as 30 per cent from secondary stock since Christmas, financiers were warned yesterday.

Uncle Sam wants laggard 401[k] account holders to beef up their savings by channeling contributions into diversified default investments

The wall street Journal on Tuesday examined how falling real estate and stock markets have led many U.S. seniors to delay retirement. Economists and demographers recently have begun expecting a 'huge exodus from the work force' as the first baby boomers reached age 60 in 2006.

Economic worries and the rising cost of health care have many baby boomers concerned that they'll outlive their retirement savings. Some are opting to phase slowly out of the workforce instead of leaving permanently. Phased retirement poses challenges for workers and companies, but it could be crucial to retaining a talented workforce.

Bankrate reviews the book 'What Color is Your Parachute? For retirement,' by Richard Bolles and John Nelson, which provides lessons on preparing for the last third of your life.

Don Cassidy, founder of the retirement Investing Institute and author of 'It's When You Sell That Counts,' says that investors need to have a sell discipline in place before they start buying investments, and that it's important to spend as much time worrying about their next sale as it is the next investment they will buy. In a radio interview, Cassidy said that investors who focus in on buy-and-hold strategies have no methodology for selling whatsoever, which frequently leads to the mistake of hanging on to bad investments for far too long, especially in difficult markets like the kind we're seeing now.

Once again, Kiplinger?s is teaming with the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors to offer 2 days of free financial advice. This advice would normally cost you $100 to $250...

You?re playing a game and all at once someone shouts ?Do over? and everyone starts the game over. You get ?do overs? in quite a few things in life but...

A defined benefit retirement or pension plan is becoming more and more obsolete in favor of defined contribution plans. There are, however, several companies that still offer these plans to...