IMHO

As anyone who has (or has been) a teenager can attest, motivation is a tricky business. Once upon a time, it took little more than a smile or...

Over the past several years, it has become “fashionable″ in some quarters to bash the workplace retirement savings plan; most frequently, the 401(k).

This coming Friday, the nation will, in large part, set aside its normal business for a three-day weekend filled with cookouts and fireworks displays, as we commemorate the...

Having just spent most of the past week in Chicago at our annual Plan Designs conference (bigger and better than ever, I might add!), my head is still...

My dad has been on my mind a lot of late—for no particular reason that I’ve been able to identify.

More than a decade ago, my mom was getting her finances ready for retirement.

I spent some of my precious three-day weekend perusing Teresa Ghilarducci’s When I’m Sixty-Four, an intriguing title for a book about pensions–or, as the subtitle suggests, “The Plot...

Last week, AARP published a report on how economic worries are impacting Americans.

Last week, the Connecticut legislature didn’t get around to voting on a bill that would have effectively set up a state-sponsored 401(k) plan for small businesses.

There’s been a lot of talk about tax policy of late.

I was discussing the subject of retirement the other day with a friend.

Last week, the House Committee on Education and Labor passed the 401(k) Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act (H.R. 3185).

I hate going to the doctor for a checkup.

Ours is an industry of fairly recent invention–one that is, in many respects, only just beginning to emerge from the growth pangs of adolescence.

An early “win″ for plan sponsors (perhaps more accurately, a win for a plan sponsor) was Hecker v. Deere&Co.

Over the past several weeks, I’ve gotten a lot of calls from reporters across the country looking to understand more about what appears to be a recent uptick...

When a co-worker forwarded to me an e-mail about Eliot Spitzer’s alleged tie with a prostitution ring last week, I thought it was a joke.

While it’s been a relatively mild winter here (and it’s not over yet), it’s been cold enough—and our house old enough—that opening the various utility bills has been...

If you watch commercial TV (that is to say, TV with commercials), you’ve no doubt been struck by the proliferation of ads for various prescription medicines.

Looks like James LaRue will get his day in court, after all.