business - "retirement"

(http://www.money-zine.com/Category/Retirement/)A fixed annuity is an insurance contract in which the issuing company promises to make fixed dollar payments to the contract holder, the annuitant, for a pre-determined length of time. In return for payment of the contract premium, the issuing company also guarantees both the earnings on the account and the principal balance.

Is more than half of your 401(k) invested in your own company's stock? In an ideal world, retirement savers would scoff at that question. But the world of retirement savings is far from ideal, as revealed by the results of a new study released Monday of almost 1 million workers' 401(k) portfolios at 82 large firms.

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has teamed up with a private pension scheme that manages the retirement savings of Ford, Jaguar and Land Rover workers to bring a £300 million legal challenge against the Government’s policy of charging VAT on investment management fees.

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...

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...

We're looking for passionate and enthusiastic individual to be the Guide to the retirement Planning site on About.com!What sort of information do we want the new Guide to provide?Well, we're...

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...

Even the nation's wealthy baby boomers are increasingly worried about retirement.

Is that true when you withdraw your money at retirement that you pay less tax for a traditional IRA than a 401(k)?

The Internal Revenue Service has announced that individuals who had their ?tax rebates? directly deposited into Individual retirement Accounts (IRA) and other tax-favored accounts may withdraw those ?rebate? amounts without liability for either income tax or penalties.