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“[T]he complaint is a rambling 38 page collection long on legal argument, public policy rhetoric and repetition, but vague in its allegations of facts which might be relevant...

A couple of weeks ago, my better half told me that she thought it was time that we traded in two of our aging vehicles – one a...

In nearly 30 years working with employer-sponsored retirement plans, I am hard-pressed to call to mind a product innovation that has been adopted with as much vigor as...

A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research titled “New Estimates of the Future Path of 401(K) Assets.″

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.