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Before you reach for the junk food after a rough day at the office, chew on this: A new study found that overweight people gain more when stressed...

Fidelity Investments is increasing the international equity exposure and adding Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities to its lifecycle funds.

Jersey City, New Jersey-based investment management firm Lord, Abbett & Co. announced Wednesday it is getting out of the small-401(k) market to concentrate on its defined contribution investment-only...

Nearly half (47%) of employers are now automatically enrolling participants into a retirement plan and another third are seriously considering it, a new survey found.

The Hartford has released a new package of educational materials designed to help advisers teach clients about the finer points of fixed-income diversification.

Financial advisers might have significant opportunity helping Americans figure out where their investments are and where they need to go, a Hartford poll suggests.

A new partnership between Prudential Retirement and MullinTBG should allow sponsors and advisers to better handle qualified and nonqualified programs, according to a news release.

The Web site myStockOptions.com can serve as a resource for advisers seeking clients with stock compensation and referrals from other professionals.

Federal securities regulators said they will take the opportunity of pre-trial fact-finding in their existing case against the Bank of America (BofA) to see if any additional charges...

Paul Steven Henry has been tapped as managing director of Retirement Services for LIMRA, the Connecticut-based insurance and financial services marketing organization.

iShares and Barclays Global Investors launched new adviser-focused 529 plan tools, including a comparison calculator.

Putnam Investments has developed what the firm calls the first suite of target-date funds that integrate target absolute return strategies with traditional mutual funds.

Morningstar, Inc., has launched the latest version of Morningstar Direct, a Web-based platform that connects institutional investment professionals to Morningstar's universe of investment research and data.

Index provider FTSE Group (FTSE) and Record Currency Management, a specialist currency investment manager, have launched the first set of indexes within the new FTSE Currency Forward Rate...

Forty-two percent of corporate finance executives said they are very likely to limit high-risk investments for their defined contribution plans, according to a poll by CFO Research Services...

T. Rowe Price now boasts an enhanced Web site for financial intermediaries.

Sitting in the audience at the ASPPA/DoL Speaks conference last week, I was reminded just how disruptive it can be to have a new boss.  

When it comes to employee benefit plans, there’s a new sheriff in town. 

Small-business employers looking for basic guidance about the array of workplace retirement plans from which they can choose can now get their questions answered at a new federal...

The Department of Labor is killing the final 401(k) investment advice rule under the Pension Protection Act, according to news reports.