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It was an interesting week, to say the least—all the more so since I spent it surrounded by financial advisers.

According to a new survey, nearly one in 10 plan sponsors still believes that they pay no fees for their retirement plan.

Over the past several weeks, I’ve received a dozen different inquiries from providers and advisers, all wanting to know if we’re seeing any pickup in provider changes.

Memories of the 2008 Olympics are fading fast, but looking back I was most struck by the American team’s performance in the 400 freestyle relay.

It’s painful to watch a friend make a life-altering mistake.

Last week, the Department of Labor took another step toward finishing another piece of unfinished business.

I’m old enough to have been a driver (albeit a young one) the last time we had a “real″ gas crisis.

At the moment, the industry is scrambling to respond to the DoL’s call for comments on the proposed participant fee disclosure regulations by September 8.

Like most of you, I have found the soaring price of gasoline to be enormously frustrating.

Last week, the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) released its much-anticipated proposal regarding participant fee disclosures.

Growth opportunities aren’t what they used to be in the retirement planning business.

By some accounts, I just spent the past week in “retirement″.

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...

The new year ushered in some important provisions that directly affect qualified retirement plans.

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...