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There’s little question that automatic enrollment “works,″ at least in terms of turning employees into participants—just as there is little doubt that, left to their own devices, too...

Plan sponsors (and advisers) who think the Pension Protection Act’s automatic enrollment safe harbor represents an easy solution to disappointing participation rates may have another “think″ coming, according...

We have long been concerned about the attention deficit of participants when it comes to their 401(k) plans.

Last week, I stumbled across another of those “DC plans are becoming like DB plans″ articles—you know, the “DB-ification″ of 401(k)s?

As the parent of a daughter away at college for the first time, the events in Blacksburg, Virginia, last week had a particularly horrific effect.

The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and Matthew Greenwald&Associates published the 17th Annual Retirement Confidence Index last week – and, for the very most part, it’s probably safe...

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...