Your personal retirement number depends on your lifestyle goals, investment risk and desired retirement age, among other key factors Written By Written by Staff Money Writer, Buy Side Erin Gobler is a ...

The FIRE movement promises a surefire way to help you retire below the national average retirement age of 64 and be financially independent. But first, you should know your FIRE number, or the amount ...

Many people have no clue what their Social Security benefits will actually be when they've clocked out of work for the last time — and that's a problem. While these benefits might replace only 40% of ...

Calculate Your Income This brings us to the heart of the issue. To decide what you should do with your portfolio when you retire, we need to start by figuring out your potential retirement income.

The law says if you start your Social Security checks before full retirement age, your benefit will be reduced five-ninths of 1% for each of the first 36 months of reduction and five-twelfths of 1% ...