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Sooner or later in your career, you are exposed to the 80/20 rule or, as purists term it, the Pareto principle.

When Fidelity announced this last week that it was dropping its pension plan, it drew my attention.

We live in an uncertain world...

For now we see through a glass, darkly.

The good news is, Congress is beginning to take a hard look at 401(k) fees.

Not too long after my first daughter was born, my wife decided that we needed to have a vehicle with four doors.

Advisers in the retirement plan industry make a difference

It’s an undisputed fact that the vast majority of retirement plan participants never rebalance their accounts.

There appear to be two great debates of our time—Is global warming (oops, I mean global climate change) real? and How much do people need to save for retirement?

On Friday, the Department of Labor issued a Field Assistance Bulletin on the “Statutory Exemption for Investment Advice.″

Looks like the pension crisis is finally over.

This past week, we passed the “anniversary″ of the commencement of bombing strikes in Operation Desert Storm (1991). Now, I was too old—and my kids too young—to have been directly impacted by that action. But I’ll always remember that night.

What do your designations really mean to plan sponsors?