If the thought of turning full retirement age sends you into financial panic sweats, it might be time to double-check your account balances. Up Next: Dave Ramsey Warns: This Common Habit Can Ruin Your Retirement For You: 7 Ways Your Paycheck Indicates If You're Rich or Middle Class According to a Vanguard consumer survey, many Americans are unsure about how much they should save or where to start. While the survey focuses on savings habits, such as building up emergency funds and reducing idle cash, it al ...

Robert Brokamp: How to analyze your retirement plan with online tools and how the Fed will affect your finances. You're listening to the Saturday Personal Finance Edition of Motley Fool Money. I'm Robert Brokamp, and this week, I speak with financial planner Sean Gates about how to choose a high-quality retirement calculator and a few to consider. But first up, let's talk about what happened last week in money. We start, of course, with the widely anticipated interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve. The ...

BREAKING: Inflation Data Cements Rate Cut Expectations Retirement readiness is a fuzzy concept — no matter the size of a nest egg. People face one nagging question: "How do I really know when I'm financially ready to retire?" It's tough to answer as there's no single solution. "I don't know if there's a magic bullet answer," said Judith Ward, a thought leadership director at T. Rowe Price (TROW). No doubt, figuring out if your money will outlive you is the math problem of the 401(k) age. Everyone's computat ...