It’s a truism of retirement planning: Social Security was always meant to be one leg of a three-legged stool supporting retirees. Those legs include Social Security benefits, private pensions and ...

It used to be said that successful retirements are built on the three-legged stool of pensions, Social Security retirement benefits, and personal savings. This was a helpful metaphor to simplify our ...

I’m sure most people reading this column have heard the term, “the three-legged stool.” That refers to the platform upon which your retirement portfolio is to be built. One of those legs represents ...