New strategies to shelter your retirement savings (Fortune via Yahoo! Finance)

For years a cardinal rule of retirement investing has been to put every penny you can into IRAs, 401s, and other tax-deferred accounts. That advice rested on a commonsense assumption: that after you stopped working you’d move into a lower tax bracket.

Emergency: Break piggy bank, not nest egg (CNN Money)

Question: I’m 25 years old and am considering upping my contribution to my 401(k) from 20% of my salary to 30%. My only hesitation is that I don’t currently have any other savings. What do you think? Should I just go ahead and build my 401(k) as much as I can or should I set aside some savings in another account? –Jonathan M., Rockville, Maryland

Pro retirement: Aloha doesn’t necessarily mean goodbye (Denver Post)

Brett Favre’s latest retirement lasted all of three weeks. The three-time MVP and former Green Bay stalwart and New York Jets rental has done an about-face for the second time in as many years and will play for the Vikings this season.

Favre comes out of retirement again (Sky News Australia)

NFL great Brett Favre has turned his back on retirement for the second time in as many years by agreeing to play for the Minnesota Vikings.

Retirement: Goal-Based Investing Gains Traction (BusinessWeek)

More financial advisers now see the need for clients to focus on goals—rather than portfolio performance—to determine the annual income they’ll need for retirement

State Retirement Fund Gaining Ground (KSFY Sioux Falls)

KSFY file image. The South Dakota retirement system recovered about half of it’s losses from when the economy. State Investment Officer Matt Clark says stocks rose in the last few months of the 2009 fiscal year lost about 20.4 percent of its value.

Ex-Stanford adviser says SEC warned about bad CDs (KRIS-TV Corpus Christi)

BATON ROUGE, La. — A former financial adviser in R. Allen Stanford’s financial company told a U.S. Senate panel on Monday that the Securities and Exchange Commission was warned about…

Using Age-Based Funds In Your 401(k) (Investopedia via Yahoo! Finance)

If you prefer a “hands-off” approach to saving for retirement, target-date funds may be for you.

County seeks retirement board members (Centennial Citizen)

As the economic downturn takes its toll on Arapahoe County’s employee retirement plan, the county’s board of commissioners is seeking applications from residents interested in helping foster new directions for the flagging plan.

Lucas to announce retirement (Herald Sun)

EXCLUSIVE: ESSENDON star Scott Lucas is expected to announce his retirement at a press conference this morning.

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