Not until you reach retirement age. Typically that's 65, though many pension plans allow you to start collecting early retirement benefits as early as age 55. If you decide to start receiving ...

A financial safety net for older Americans, Social Security was established in 1935 by the Social Security Act. Before that, support for the elderly wasn't a federal concern - it mostly fell to ...

These days, Daymond John is best known as the impeccably dressed star investor of reality show Shark Tank, but his reputation -- and his millions -- were first made as the co-founder and chief ...

That depends on a whole bunch of things, like when you start investing, what you decide to invest in, and when you decide to retire. But as a general rule, financial planners advise that every ...

Survivor benefits are available for certain family members as long as you accumulated the 40 credits before dying. Your children may qualify for 75% of your Social Security benefits based on your ...

There are two basic types of annuities: deferred and immediate. With a deferred annuity, your money is invested for a period of time until you are ready to begin taking withdrawals, typically in ...

The old rule of thumb used to be that you should subtract your age from 100 - and that's the percentage of your portfolio that you should keep in stocks. For example, if you're 30, you should keep ...

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US Airways and American Airlines are joining forces in an $11 billion deal to create the world's largest airline.

A pension is a retirement account that an employer maintains to give you a fixed payout when you retire. It's a kind of defined benefit plan. Your payout typically depends on how long you worked ...

When you invest for retirement, you typically have three main options: The first two options are far better deals, but there are limits on how much money you can put into them each year.

7:05am: The David Lynch Foundation has been getting an increasing number of calls from Wall Street firms to come and offer its $1,000 intensive course on Transcendental Meditation to employees. More ...