Economist Alicia Munnell, one of the nation's leading experts on retirement, has some advice that may seem counterintuitive: The key to a successful retirement, she says, is not to retire.

An increasing amount of retirement plans are left behind, and then forgotten, when workers change jobs — but a new federal database should make it easier to track down those accounts.

The average American retires at age 62, but in Congress, many lawmakers hang around well past their 70s.

A law known as Secure 2.0 is expected to make Roth 401(k) accounts more prevalent. Choosing between Roth and pretax savings is essentially a tax bet. Retirement savers, take note: more employers ...

Social Security's "full retirement age" is set to increase next ... for their benefits next year to account for inflation. The COLA increases benefits to account for rising prices of goods in ...