Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Host of the Retire Sooner podcast and CFP™ practitioner. Happiness may be subjective, but with multiple studies suggesting ...

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One question that team members at my company, a boutique investment bank that provides merger-and-acquisition and capital-advisory services, have been fielding lately from both current and prospective ...

If you try to withdraw early from just about any retirement plan, you'll be slapped with a penalty—an incentive to leave your money alone and let it build toward retirement like you always intended.

Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. Yarilet Perez is an experienced multimedia journalist and fact-checker with a Master of ...