Cost of Retirement

Use this calculator to estimate how much income and savings you may need in retirement.

Estate Taxes

Use this calculator to estimate the federal estate taxes that could be due on your estate after you die.

Net Worth

A balance sheet summarizes your assets and liabilities and reveals your net worth.

Risk Tolerance

This calculator is designed to help you clarify your comfort level with investment risk.

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HOT TOPIC: Investors Flock to Bond Funds, But What Happens When Rates Rise?

Investors are on track to invest 11 times more money in bond funds in 2009 than they will invest in stock funds. This is not surprising, considering the market volatility in 2008, but are these investors operating on false assumptions about the capabilities of bond funds?

Getting the Right Mix

Asset allocation is the process of dividing investment dollars among asset classes that often behave differently in different market cycles.

HOT TOPIC: Sum of All Fears: Are Risk Aversion and Greed All in the Mind?

Do you change your investment strategy as the markets go up and down, or do you stay the course? As difficult as it may be, staying the course is usually the more advisable approach — but research shows that you may need to defy your brain to do it.

Hot Topic: 2010: The Year of the Roth Conversion?

Starting in 2010, anyone, regardless of income, can convert retirement plan assets to a Roth IRA.

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