If you hope to take home checks this large, you'll need to start laying the groundwork now — and it starts with hitting the right salary targets.

A NerdWallet survey, conducted online by The Harris Poll in October 2024, found that just 23% of Americans had evaluated their progress toward retirement savings goals in the prior 12 months. To check ...

That was my reaction as I read about the Retirement Income Style Awareness matrix in Professor Wade Pfau’s excellent Retirement Planning Guidebook. Forget bickering about “the best” solution ...

Securing a steady income is crucial for a successful retirement. Social Security, pensions, annuities, IRAs, Roth IRAs and 401(k) plans all exist to provide retirees with necessary assets and/or ...

This series is designed to help investors replace roughly 80% of their income in retirement (including an assumption that investors take Social Security at age 65). That leads to a glide path that ...