Morningstar’s Christine Benz says retirement takes money—and lots of practice.

Morningstar’s Christine Benz explores the keys to a healthy, happy, and wealthy retirement in her new book and podcast series. Christine Benz asks the retirement questions that we are all ...

Take Christine Benz, for example. As the longtime director of personal finance and retirement planning for investment ...

Writing “How to Retire” helped Morningstar personal-finance expert Christine Benz learn a few surprising lessons.

Christine Benz is director of personal finance and retirement planning for Morningstar, Inc. She is also the author of a new book, How to Retire: 20 Lessons for a Happy, Successful, and Wealthy ...

Benz is considered one of the top personal-finance and retirement-planning journalists around and for her book, she ...

Jeff Benjamin gets a makeover! For his portfolio, that is. Christine Benz of Morningstar hosts an annual portfolio makeover, and this year Jeff took part to learn about it, and act as a guinea pig.

“As attractive as yields on savings instruments have recently been, it’s wise not to hold too much in cash because these are ...

Custom benchmarks needs to match the investor's portfolio, Benz says. Advisors or clients can use common funds to build the personalized benchmark. Benz also suggests checking whether the asset ...

A cut to the Fed's benchmark rate has consequences for debt, savings, auto loans, mortgages and other forms of borrowing by ...

“As attractive as yields on savings instruments have recently been, it’s wise not to hold too much in cash because these are ...

If you want to debate whether one investment yielding 4.5% is better than a less risky investment yielding 4.2%, you can usually count on an answer from Christine Benz, who writes a regular column ...