It's my understanding that under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, if a 401(k) participant is married, their spouse is their automatic primary beneficiary. What happens if the participant ...

The irony of the market selloff is that it comes the same week as a blowout initial public offering from design software ...

But there is a non-statistical basis for concern: an ominous parallel with the financial environment that prevailed in the weeks leading up to the October 1987 stock-market crash. On that day - Black ...

During that time, the insurance company sent him an offer of "expedited payment" if he signed off, including a section saying he was not in-network. He declined to accept that offer. He said he was OK ...

When the Great Recession hit, older boomers were preparing to retire while millennials were entering the workforce.

They claim that the country's overall trade deficit - the sum of the U.S. trade balance with all countries - represents economic weakness and a national-security threat. But what can bilateral trade ...

A friend asked me to loan her $1,600 to pay her rent. She is in a tough spot. She will get the funds from her account in 30 days to pay me back. I have never been asked for money before and I have ...

You can likely leave those tuxedos and ballgowns home when packing for your next cruise vacation - but you might want to bring an extra pair of jeans.

Bethany Joseph, an elder-care consultant in New Jersey, knows that her phone will ring more often during the holidays when adult children see their parents and realize they've aged and their care is ...

'If my salary had kept pace with inflation, I would be earning an additional $17,000 a year' ...

Converting Social Security into millions of individual investment accounts would end the program as we know it Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent set off a firestorm this week when he said that the ...

State Medicaid programs already are allowed to offer GLP-1 drugs for weight loss, but only 13 state programs currently do so. Meanwhile, Medicare currently covers GLP-1 drugs for people with a ...