Retirement

Learn how guaranteed retirement income can ease financial fears, improve mental health, and safeguard against financial exploitation for a secure retirement.

Maximize your retirement income with proven strategies. From asset allocation to Social Security timing, find out how to make the most of your savings.

BlackRock's 2024 Read on Retirement™ survey reveals that retirement is personal. And yet, many of the challenges workers face are common and shared.

Our report identifies five trends that are shaping retirement and points to areas where we can convert challenges into opportunity – so that every American can enjoy the secure retirement they deserve.

Emergency savings solutions in retirement plans are on the horizon. See what the research teaches us and how 401(k) plans can benefit from lessons learned.

Sharing insights from our nearly decade-long experience of timing factors, we make the case that factors are cyclical and can be sensibly timed.

It’s hard to overcome the effects of wage gaps: We find that women’s 401(k) retirement balances are often 30% lower than men’s, impacting confidence.

For The Bid podcast’s International Women’s Day episode, Gargi Pal Chaudhuri and Anne Ackerley sat down for a conversation about women and investing.

BlackRock modeling reveals that guaranteed lifetime income enhances savings for all workers, ensuring retirees don't outlive their funds.

Factors are cyclical. Individual factors may experience periods of underperformance. A time-varying approach to factors may supersede factor investing alone.

Why some retirees are spending down their assets while others are not.

In the 30 years since we pioneered target date funds, we’ve continually evolved our LifePath franchise to deliver the retirement outcomes savers need. So when they retire, they can do so on their own terms. Whether that means slowing down – or not.