Retirement

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story wealth matters With Higher Taxes Possible, Here’s What to Do Now It’s not clear how many of President Biden’s expected proposals would become law, but it may be better to pay taxes now, when you know the rates. President Biden’s proposed pandemic

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Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story retiring Saving at Work for Retirement: A Perk Coming to More States in 2021 The automatic I.R.A., administered by state governments, will be more widely available. “I didn’t have to invest a lot of time figuring it out, and it’s free,” Denise

The Coronavirus Outbreak liveLatest Updates Maps and Cases The Latest Vaccine Information U.S. Deaths Surpass 300,000 F.A.Q. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Workers Tap Retirement Savings as a Last Resort At least two million workers have turned to their workplace retirement plans for cash under temporary rules

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story retiring Female Workers Could Take Another Pandemic Hit: To Their Retirements Unequal job losses now will translate into smaller nest eggs and Social Security benefits down the road. “Women can’t be full participants in the labor force and pay into their retirement

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Your Money A New Way to Invest for the Vengeful and the High-Minded Big investment managers are buying up companies that help with so-called direct indexing, which offers clients a way to boot individual companies from their portfolios. It has tax benefits,

TOKYO — For more than a decade, Setsuko Hikita spent her working days selling snacks and newspapers in the bowels of Tokyo’s bustling metro system. Amid the chaos of morning commutes and the scramble to catch the last train home, she kept her employers’ tiny kiosks a haven of well-ordered commerce. Her company once awarded

When Dray Farley was 15, he watched a video his favorite gamer had posted on YouTube. But it wasn’t about Call of Duty. “It was how to get rich in 22 years, and the general math and concept of compound interest, the snowball effect, and how eventually your gains are making gains,” Mr. Farley said.

Paula Brynen has been finding a sense of purpose in volunteer work for years — and even more so after her job as a fund-raiser for public television in California was eliminated two years ago. Having survived leukemia in 2011, she volunteers with the local chapter of the nonprofit Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, work that

Social Security has always seemed like a future problem, with experts long predicting a benefits squeeze in the decades ahead. But the coronavirus has put tens of millions of Americans out of work, and economists are predicting that the recovery will take years. That means the future is now. If nothing is done to shore

In early 2000, Michael and Lynn Terry started a business selling horse trailers that were lighter than their competitors’ and customized to each client’s needs. Nearly two decades later, their company, Cimarron Trailers, with tens of millions of dollars in sales, employed over 130 people in Chickasha, Okla., and their trailers were sold at 30

A pension fund for Pennsylvania teachers said it had frozen new investments with Apollo Global Management amid concerns about ties between its founder, Leon Black, and Jeffrey Epstein. The $63 billion Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System said it spoke with Apollo officials last week after a New York Times report detailed the financial ties

In April, Dave Summers lost his job as director of digital media productions at the American Management Association, a casualty of layoffs brought on by the pandemic. Mr. Summers, 60, swiftly launched his own business as a digital media producer, coach and animator who creates podcasts, webcasts and video blogs. And in September, he and

Ben Meng got the job of chief investment officer of CalPERS by convincing the trustees of the nation’s largest public pension fund that he could hit their target of a 7 percent annual return on investment by directing more of the fund’s billions into private equity. Now, Mr. Meng is gone — only a year

When someone retires, three substantial changes take place, said Ken Dychtwald, psychologist, gerontologist and founder and chief executive of Age Wave, a consulting and research company. “They struggle with their identity, relationships and activity,” he said. “Some people feel unsettled, anxious or even bored, but eventually they realize that relationships, wellness and purpose really matter

Today’s record low bond yields could not come at a worse time for many baby boomers. Owning U.S. Treasuries, the undisputed safest bond for retirees, means signing on for next to nothing in earnings for the next five to 10 years. That’s because the current yield of a Treasury bond is a solid estimate of

David Jarmul and his wife, Champa, long envisioned what their retirement would look like. After returning from a two-year Peace Corps stint in Moldova in 2018, the couple, both 67, planned extensive travel, including trips to the Baltics, West Africa and Sri Lanka. “Travel is our passion — it’s what we love to do,” said

In a sharply polarized environment, Americans saving for retirement are increasingly concerned about politics — those of their financial advisers. “I’ll get a phone call from one client thinking the world is falling apart, and then another thinking it’s the best time to get into the market — in the same day,” said Robert Schmansky,

Shawn McCadden began working for his father’s handyman business in Massachusetts in 1970, when he was 11. At 32, he started his own building company. Just three years later, his back told him it was time to find a new line of work. Mr. McCadden, now 61, has sciatica. Both of his legs get weak

The Labor Department is seeking a new federal regulation that could discourage retirement funds from making investments based on environmental, social and governance considerations. The department said in a news release Tuesday evening that it was taking the action to “provide clear regulatory guideposts.” Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, in an opinion article Wednesday in The