By Kevin Voigt With the proliferation of online stock brokers, people have never had more options to steer their own investing future. Yet in recent ...

By Kevin Voigt With the profusion of online stock brokers today, you could be forgiven for not knowing where to start looking. If you think self-dir...

By Kevin Voigt The top reason why investors would switch online stock brokers? Lower trade commissions, according to a recent NerdWallet/eTrade surve...

By Kevin Voigt When it comes to investing for retirement, one in five couples seem to be locked in a broken love triangle with their stock brokers, a...

By Kevin Voigt You probably wouldn't think twice about a 1% difference in price when buying shoes. But when choosing among online stock brokers, tha...

Retirement isn't what it used to be. Defined benefit plans, formerly a way for employees to have a relatively comfortable retirement, haven't yielded the healthy returns of years past.

Clinton and the Democrats recognize what most Americans know: Social Security is more important than ever. It is Americans' most important, and often only, source of retirement income, life insurance, and disability insurance.

1) Time is your most productive asset, and it cannot be recovered. If there is one word that sums up today's business world, it's probably busy. Ever...

At a time when many struggle to save enough for a comfortable retirement, there are a few people who can not only retire comfortably but can do so earlier than the expected 65 years old. As part of my job at Personal Capital, I have been lucky to get to know today's top personal finance bloggers.

By Arielle O'Shea I have a 2-year-old, and like most parents, I feel pretty sure my child is a genius in the making. I frequently whisper things l...

As young people, we have all kinds of dreams and visions for our futures. We want to summit Mount Rainier, paraglide off of a cliff in the Austrian Al...

During the historic Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight there was no knockout, but your finances may not be able to take a punch quite as well. It i...

Most people spend their entire lives working hard and sometimes at minimal wages just in order to be able to retire and retire successfully. For once you finally have the opportunity to be free from the everyday hustle and bustle. No more routines and no more working just to survive. As a retiree you finally have the chance to simply enjoy the little things in life.

Accurately and insightfully, Stronger Together points out that the debate over Social Security is distorted by "years of mythmaking, claiming we cannot afford Social Security and that the only solution is to cut the benefits on which 90 percent of American seniors rely."

We write about retiring overseas. It's what we know. And we admit we've not lived in the U.S. for 15 years now ... Still, we do know something about the retirement concerns of our friends and fellow baby boomers that are still working in the U.S. today. In just a couple of words: They're worried.

The day I became vested in the Teachers Retirement System of Texas, I retired. I was 51, and had taught school for 29 years. Sure, I was young for a retiree, but aging school teachers are measured with a multiplier more in terms of 'dog years' than regular years.