Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

Paying the bills on time trumps saving for retirement, according to a new PwC survey.

Here are three ways to make sure your heirs fight after you die.

Life is so good for university faculty members that persuading them to retire can be tough.

Most people nix the idea of sharing estate planning details with their adult children, but telling the kids some key facts could be important.

Future caregivers, start your engines: Consider how you’ll handle long-term care while you and your parents are still young and healthy.

Deferred income annuities are becoming an increasingly popular replacement for old-fashioned pensions.

The government is offering new instructional materials to help older people learn to avoid scams.

A new study by Interest.com shows that most retiree households can’t replace 70 to 80 percent of their pre-retiree income. But another study suggests it may not be necessary to do that.

An author writes about women who are past 60, still on the job and loving it.

If individuals could invest in their 401(k) plans like institutional money managers do in their pension plans, they’d get a better result, says a retirement expert.