In a perfect world, the typical worker would have saved $364,000 in a 401(k)/IRA retirement account by the time he or she was aged 55 to 64....

Forty-one percent of American households say they would have trouble paying an unexpected $400 expense, according to the Federal Reserve Boa...

What are the chances you will regret not saving more money when you were younger? Better than even, according to a National Bureau of Econom...

Consistency pays off. Workers who consistently participate in their 401(k) plan have seen their account balance grow rapidly over the past f...

The percentage of households with student loan debt has more than doubled in the past 24 years, according to an Employee Benefit Research In...

Do student loans prevent young adults from saving for retirement? Yes, finds a study by the Center for Retirement Research. Analyzing data f...

Among the nation's workers aged 55 or older, a substantial 71 percent are "somewhat" or "very" confident that they w...

Yadda, yadda, yadda...you've heard it all before. Work longer, claim Social Security benefits later, and you will have more money in ret...

Individual retirement accounts hold 25 percent of all retirement plan assets in the U.S., reports the Employee Benefit Research Institute. I...

According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 54 million American workers were active 401(k) participants in 2015. Total 401(k) asse...

How many households have an IRA and/or a defined-contribution retirement account? According to an Employee Benefit Research Institute analys...

Most American workers are saving for retirement. Overall, 61 percent of workers aged 25 or older say they or their spouse have saved money f...

Americans are saving more in their IRAs. The median balance of IRA accounts has grown since 2011, according to a report by the Employee Bene...

To save enough for retirement, empty nesters are supposed to put the money they once spent on children into retirement savings. Do they? The...

Among workers who participate in 401(k) retirement plans, these are the median and average 401(k) balances held in plans sponsored by their ...

Houston, Atlanta, Kansas City, Miami...we have a problem. The problem is the lack of employer-sponsored retirement plans for about half the ...

How much money could the typical household access within 30 days to cover the cost of a financial shock? According to the Survey of American...

Most households have little money saved for emergencies, according to an analysis of the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances by the Pew Charita...

Median amount households have saved for retirement, 2014 (and 2007), by generation... Boomers: $127, 000 ($75,000) Gen Xers: $70,000 ($32...

Among all IRA owners in 2012, the median balance of their IRA account(s) was $27,987. The balance rises slowly with age: $3,360 for IRA owne...