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A number of adventurous baby boomers who don't want to spend their golden years in a retirement community are choosing to retire overseas. Here’s why.

You've been saving for retirement for decades, and now the day has come to start spending it. Where do you start?

Heading to warmer weather when winter rolls in sounds like a comfortable retirement plan, but it comes with a lot of tax and financial implications.

When it comes to planning for health-care costs in retirement, women are more worried than men--and for good reason.

Whether it’s for personal or financial reasons, baby boomers are either staying in the job market longer or looking to re-enter it, and it’s important they remain relevant.

In New Jersey, the practice of double-dipping, in which a public employee retires from one job with a full pension and promptly starts another government job at full salary, is widespread, bipartisan and expensive. 

Believe it or not, the last five years before you retire may be some of the most critical in retirement planning. Here is a checklist.

If you’re working for a company that has an old-fashioned pension plan and you intend to retire sometime in the next five years, listen up.

Today is the 401(k)'s 40th birthday. Here are some reasons to celebrate this retirement savings tool.

For baby boomers headed into the home stretch ahead of their retirement, preserving their nest egg is a constant goal—and questions swirl on the best way to do this. 

Dave Says: Can workers still rely on a pension to fund their retirement? And should we be planning to deal with deflation?

Retirees mistakenly think their days of working are behind them when they enter their golden years, but many find themselves playing a new role: portfolio manager. 

When it comes to spending retirement funds, the 4% rule sounds simple enough, but experts say more consideration needs to go into how boomers' spend their nests egg.

Dave Says: With interest rates still low, is now the time to combine mortgages into one lower-rate loan? And is it best to maintain a blended fund for retirement or switch to self-chosen funds?

For years, baby boomers have been chastised for too much spending and not enough saving. But when it comes to retirement, this generation's main worry isn't about having enough  money. 

There is currently more money in IRAs than in any other kind of retirement account--and for good reason. 

Hit the treadmill and earn reward points and a discounted life insurance policy.

According to LIMRA, indexed universal life insurance policy premiums increased 23% in 2014. But financial experts warn this product, which was first introduced in 1997, is not for everyone.

We’ve all made financial blunders at one time or another. But the negative impacts are particularly severe for baby boomers near or in retirement.  Here is what you should know.

Since the cost of long-term care increases with age, purchasing insurance for it is most affordable before retirement -- a time when boomers aren't typically focused on making that purchase.