Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

Both retirees and near-retirees are more optimistic when they have saved at least a half-million dollars.

To ensure financial peace of mind, you need to accumulate as much wealth as possible, right? The two ideas are inextricably entwined, I’ve always thought. But SunAmerica’s recent poll segregated the two concepts and asked people age 55 and older which of the two more closely described their financial goals. Most of them — 82