You know how this should go: Start saving for retirement in your twenties and keep it up for three decades or more. Begin transitioning your finances to the withdrawal stage in your late fifties and...

Building in portfolio safeguards can be easy with these common-sense moves.

Q. "I already invest in a target-date retirement fund. What should my next fund be?"-- Errick Chiasson, Baldwinsville, N.Y. A. Target-date funds are designed to provide not only a fully diversified portfolio in a single...

Meir Statman, a finance professor at Santa Clara University, is one of the most influential experts in behavioral finance -- the study of how your emotions and beliefs affect your decisions surrounding money. Research in...

Q. I've always heard that 100 minus your age gives you the percentage of your retirement portfolio that you should invest in stocks. Do you recommend that rule of thumb as a good way to...

When a loved one is ill, saving for retirement is never top of mind. That was the case for Lisa Bowman, whose husband suffered a debilitating stroke six years ago and passed away in 2011....