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While downturns in the stock market often get the most attention from those worried about their retirement funds, something else may also be doing damage to your savings: 401(k) fees. Although retirement plans must be transparent about the fees they charge by law, most who contribute to them through their employers…Read more...

Changing jobs often involves a list of steps to ease the transition. One step, which often gets overlooked, is moving the money from your old company’s 401(k). As you prepare for your new gig, you may push the task to the back burner—and forget about it until years later. Or worse, you may choose to cash out your…Read more...

Let’s say you’ve started your first job. Or, maybe, you’ve simply started to think about saving for retirement. Your employer offers a 401(k), but you don’t know where to get started (or even what that is).Read more...

When you first start saving for retirement, you might think you’ll never get to the point where you can “max out” your annual contribution. But perhaps your income has leveled up significantly since then, or you’ve prioritized saving for retirement. You might see yourself approaching that annual $19,500 limit for your…Read more...

Here’s one more tricky topic to navigate with your family this holiday season: gold and silver retirement scams. An investigation by Quartz detailed these scams, which con seniors into moving their retirement funds to volatile precious metals investments. Gold and silver investment scams aren’t new, but they’ve been…Read more...

Do you remember that time Suze Orman said we should take all the money we’re “peeing down the drain” on coffee and invest it instead? You could take the $100 a month you spend on coffee, she said (yelled? I think she yelled) and end up with a million dollars for your retirement. Read more...