Preferred stocks generally come with a "guaranteed" dividend amount, but it's important to realize that if the company falls on tough financial times, even preferred dividends can be suspended.

Many investors focus on how much a company pays in dividends. Most companies report their dividends on a cash-flow statement or in a separate accounting summary in their regular disclosures to ...

Strange but true: seniors fear death less than running out of money in retirement. Also, retirees who have constructed a nest egg have valid justifications to be concerned, since the traditional ways ...

Here's an eye-opening statistic: older Americans are more afraid of running out of money than of death itself. And retirees have good reason to be worried about making their assets last. People are ...