Retirement Planning Tips for Fifty-Somethings
Entering your 50s and behind in your retirement planning goals? Don’t fret. You’ve still got time to get your financial plan back on track.
Planning Your Required Distributions
For those in or near retirement, the age of 70½ is a key transition point: Retirees need to begin planning for required minimum distributions (RMDs) that are taken annually from employer-sponsored retirement plans and traditional IRAs.
Planning for the Future — What Motivates You?
The truth is there is ample motivation to make the most of retirement planning opportunities.
Managing Cash Flow in Retirement
Detailed budgeting, frequent monitoring of income and expenses, and prompt action to address potential cash flow problems are essential elements of financial planning for retirees.
How Much Do You Need to Retire? Let’s Calculate
Calculating a retirement savings goal is one of the most important steps investors can take to help determine if they are on pace to meet that goal. However, most American workers haven’t tried to figure out how much money they will need to accumulate for retirement. What about you?

Midyear Outlook 2025: Pragmatic Optimism, Measured Expectations
We started 2025 on a high note, although we acknowledged that “no market environment is ever permanent, and that change is always potentially around the corner.” Well change did come, and with it, volatility, perhaps in part because we assumed President Trump’s policies would simply mirror those of his prior term. The impact of policy…
Weekly Market Commentary | Lessons from Past Conflicts and the Stock Market | April 06, 2026
LPL Research looks to the past for lessons on geopolitical uncertainty and its potential impact on equities.
Weekly Market Commentary | Earnings Season Outlook: Will Markets Care? | March 30, 2026
LPL Research explains why solid earnings, AI investment, and economic resilience underpin stocks, even as oil prices and volatility pressure markets.
Energy Stocks Vary Across Market Cycles
LPL Research explores the energy sector, and the different sub-sectors and business models within, before and after the start of the Iran War.
Private Credit Under Pressure: Liquidity Mismatches in an AI-Disrupted Cycle
LPL Research examines recent private credit activity in the face of growing sophistication from AI.

