Nearly one in five of us boomers will develop Alzheimer's disease or some other form of dementia in our lifetime. If that's not scary enough, researchers have put a staggering figure on the diseases' financial burden.
A new survey that questions whether parents talk to their school-age kids about money reveals some startling results - namely, that nearly one in five parents expect to lean on their children for financial help in their retirement years.
Thinking about retiring soon? You may wish you lived in any one of 18 other countries since they offer better safety nets for retirees than the United States, according to a new retirement index.
For decades, financial planners have recommended to retirees that a 4 percent withdrawal rate from their nest eggs would be sustainable through the years, almost guaranteeing that they wouldn't run out of money.
We're taking home smaller paychecks now that higher Social Security payroll taxes are back. At the same time, gas prices are spiking and causing a ripple effect on other goods and services that rely on transportation. One oil company executive says we shouldn't be surprised if the price per gallon…