business - "retirement"

There are many reasons why more and more workers in America wish to continue on the job beyond the conventional retirement age of 65.

The Ohio Public Employees retirement System and Credit Suisse Group have put another $11 million from their Ohio-Midwest Fund into two venture-capital firms. (CSI)

Lifetime mortgages are the most popular option for older borrowers seeking to release equity from their homes to provide extra cash in retirement. In recent months these loans have become more attractive, because equity release mortgage interest rates have held steady while mortgage rates in the house purchase market have edged upwards. Prudential, for instance, has just reported its highest quarterly sales of lifetime mortgages since it entered the market in 2005.

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...

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...

After thirteen years of congressional debate, president bush signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act ('GINA') on May 21, 2008. This law prohibits health insurers and employers from discriminating on the basis of genetic information. With regard to health insurance discrimination, the law, in part, amends the Employee retirement Income Security Act and the Public Health Service Act to prohibit group health plans and health insurers from discriminating against individuals based on genetic information or services. It also proscribes health plans and insurers from requesting or requiring genetic testing, with limited exceptions. These amendments go into effect one year after the date of the law's enactment.