Linda Stern

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Young marriage is lovely, but it has always carried its own challenges of adjustment and maturation. But newlyweds of the millennial generation face another layer of...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ever since they were badly burned in the 2008-2009 stock and bond debacle, investors have been pouring money into so-called "alternative" mutual funds, often at the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It may sound like something you would train your dog to do, but the "reverse rollover" is a maneuver that more retirement-minded workers should try. The...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the retirement planning space, there are two realities. The first consists of spreadsheets, calculators and frightening rules of thumb to guide workers and retirees in...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - I'm a contrarian. So when I see investors fleeing municipal bond mutual funds at a record pace, and when I hear that it is nothing but...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Don't look now, but some of the same folks who have been spreading fear about the woeful lack of retirement readiness among American workers have something...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Every October, my book group drops its strictly literary agenda and spends a weekend shopping at outlets on the Delaware shore. We love the fall weather,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Don't look now, but interest rates have started to rise. The 30-year fixed rate mortgage, now at 3.9 percent, bottomed out at 3.5 percent in December 2012,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It isn't like Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues have it in for old people - I'm sure they are all very respectful of...