TIAA-CREF provides online guidance and tips to ensure financial empowerment.
What’s better investing or saving? How can you become a financially savvy retiree? How can you generate retirement income from an IRA? TIAA-CREF provides those answers and more in its online financial empowerment series.
If you’re retired, you should keep monitoring your savings. Many of us will live 20 years or more in retirement, with women living even longer than men.
If you’ve built up assets and are investing consistently, you should continue to save and consider additional insurance to protect your assets.
If you’re nearing retirement, your main goals are to keep contributing to your retirement account, and decide how and when you will step away from work.
Manisha Thakor shares why women invest differently than men.
Moving money into an IRA can be an easy way to manage retirement savings from your past and future jobs, in one place.
If you have enough guaranteed income and investment assets to last for the rest of your life, you may have the ability to retire early.
While the April 15 income tax filing deadline is dubbed “Tax Day,” there is another very important deadline taxpayers need to keep in mind.
Nearing retirement is a time to shift your focus from accumulating assets to turning those assets into a source of income.
Simplification and lower fees make consolidation an attractive option.
Retirement planning requires research, solid investment products and the ability to manage varying levels of risk.
A quick refresher of things to consider — including diversification and asset allocation.
Some people think of investing and saving as the same thing, but what’s the difference?
Today, people have far more options and tools available to them to help them plan their retirement.
An Individual Retirement Account (IRA) offers a great way to build additional savings for retirement.
In many ways, women in America today face more significant challenges in saving for their retirement than do men.
If you haven’t started saving and investing for your future, there’s no better time than now.
Some common myths about retirement can undermine your financial well-being.
An asset class is a group of securities that have similar financial characteristics.
How you organize your finances now will play a large role in your future.
Your retirement income should support cost-of-living increases, healthcare and withstand market fluctuations.
With fraud on the rise, it’s important to know the different methods and how to protect yourself.
The Traditional and Roth IRA contribution limits are $5,500 ($6,500 if 50 or older) for tax year 2014.
For many investors, converting a Traditional IRA to a Roth IRA makes sense because of the many advantages Roth IRAs offer.
Most people dream of having financial freedom in retirement.
While your retirement goals may be complex, an annuity can help make meeting those goals simple.
Annuities have a bad reputation among some people — but not necessarily a well-deserved one.
More basics about fixed and variable annuities.