Savings Fall Short for Most Retirees

Your financial adviser doesn't want you to read this column. Many retirement investors, egged on by brokers and mutual-fund companies, put a great deal of emphasis on crafting finely tuned portfolios out of stocks, bonds and—increasingly, ...

Smarter Ways to Help Your Kids Pay for College

Plan for Parents' Future

Retiree Health-Care Costs Surge

Talk about sticker shock: Even with Medicare benefits, a 65-year-old couple retiring in 2012 will spend at least $240,000 in health-care costs during their retirement, according to a report from Fidelity Investments released Wednesday. That ...

Facing Health-Plan Cuts

How to Cut Your Health-Care Costs; Perhaps most important: Understand the new legislation and how to take advantage of it

New York Building Sold In $270 Million Deal

A Virginia real-estate investment firm has sold a 22-story office building in downtown Manhattan in a deal valued at about $270 million, including debt, more than doubling the price it paid for the tower in early 2010, according to people ...

Virginia Castle Off the Beltway; This 16,000-square-foot home in northern Virginia overlooking the Potomac River takes its cues from European castles by way of Washington, D.C.-- Stefanos Chen

Marrakesh Estate; This 20-bedroom estate includes a main villa, family villa or "riad," three guest bungalows, two swimming pools and more than 700 olive trees on almost seven acres of land. —Nick Clayton

Should You Purchase Long-Term-Care Insurance?

Long-term-care insurance. It's a subject most people don't want to think about—but many people know they need to. At first blush, policies that help pay the costs of extended nursing care make perfect sense. Bills add up quickly when you can ...

Medicare Covers In-Home Care

Don't Grow Old Without It