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It is a long-accepted tenet that most retirement plan participants want—and need—help to make good investment decisions, and a new study suggests that it makes a difference.

One of the things I have always enjoyed most about this job is the access to information—not only from our own research, but from any number of academic...

Royce Fund Services, Inc., has announced that it is closing two of its funds to new investors effective at the close of business today.

Research from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) found that employers adopting automatic enrollment in their 401(k) plans have also generally increased the employer match to participants' accounts—in...

A Bensalem, Pennsylvania, law firm has announced it is considering filing a stock-drop lawsuit against State Street Corporation with potential claims of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)...

Putnam Investments has launched a new Roth IRA Conversion Resource Center for financial advisers.

For the first time ever, affluent investors now report having more dollars allocated to individual retirement accounts (IRAs) than to employer-sponsored retirement plans (ESRPs), according to Cogent Research.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney was the highest-ranked wirehouse among affluent and high-net-worth (HNW) investors, according to Cogent Research’s list of top fund distributors.

New York Life Insurance Company has tapped Ibbotson Associates to help develop a set of tools "to help registered representatives account for their clients’ total economic wealth and...

ProFunds Group has launched two exchange-traded funds (ETFs) designed to provide magnified exposure to the U.S. Treasury market.

Great-West Retirement Services has appointed Tanya Rinebarger as communications consultant for its 401(k) business, the company announced.

After three years as second in command at Fidelity Investments, President Rodger Lawson has announced he will step down from the post at the end of March.

StanCorp Equities, Inc. (The Standard), has named Jim McCrory as regional pension manager to direct the firm’s retirement plan sales team in the Southeast.

Investors have rediscovered their risk appetite and are putting cash reserves to use, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers for January.

Commonwealth Financial Network announced enhancements to its fee-based asset management program for separately managed accounts (SMAs), including a new unified managed account (UMA) option.

In the old days of smartphones, having a BlackBerry probably pegged you as a businessperson; however, that might no longer be the case.

Performance for target-maturity funds in 2009 almost made a complete 360 from 2008, according to the Ibbotson Target Maturity Report Q4 2009.

Lord, Abbett & Co. has reduced the net expense ratios on two of its funds, effective December 31.

Security Global Investors (SGI) has named Jerome Abernathy and David Beeman to its quantitative investment and development/management teams to help shape the firm's efforts in alternative products.

A new AllianceBernstein study suggests that small-plan sponsors could use some help understanding the Pension Protection Act (PPA) and their fiduciary roles.