Ben Steverman

Most retirees should wait longer to access their benefits, researchers find. Some should claim them sooner.

Most of the world’s retirees are doing well compared with those in Japan, where the retirement savings gap is 15 years for men and almost 20 years for women.

Wealthy Americans contemplating a move to a low-tax state might want to reflect on these five tales of woe.

Residents in Spain and France are the gloomiest, where more than two out of three people are concerned about their financial futures.

President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax overhaul eliminates the deduction for alimony payments -- for divorces finalized starting in 2019.

Same-sex female couples are two to three times more likely to reach 100 than one or both members of a 45-year-old same-sex male couple.

Plans can help older doctors, lawyers stash more than $300,000.

With the Republican tax overhaul, hedge fund titan David Tepper can write off his $2.3 billion purchase of the NFL's Carolina Panthers over 15 years.