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Symetra Life Insurance Company announced its Daily Value Fixed Account (Daily Value) feature for retirement plans is now available on the CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc., retirement program...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has launched an online index for locating individual exemptions granted under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). ...

The investing environment for the next 10 years won’t match the boom conditions of the 1980s and 1990s, but will be much better than that of the decade...

Defined benefit sponsors have the potential to receive billions of dollars in temporary pension funding relief as a result of legislation signed into law last month, according to...

Invesco PowerShares announced that effective August 2, 2010, the PowerShares High Yield Corporate Bond Portfolio (PHB) began tracking the RAFI High Yield Bond Index and was renamed the...

In this as, perhaps, many professional endeavors, it seems that the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.   

The owner of the New York Mets has been sued for the role he allegedly played in wiping out a participant’s 401(k) account. 

The Department of Labor has decided not to grant a blanket extension for filers of Form 5500 and Form 5500-SF.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said it will be issuing detailed guidance about the special funding rules for single-employer defined benefit plans in the recent Pension Relief Act...

Fidelity Investments has released research data that finds varying investor reaction and behavior to the ongoing market volatility.

Janus Capital Group has unveiled the Perkins Value Plus Income Fund (JPVAX). 

Greenwich Investment Management, Registered Investment Advisors, announced that Lawrence W. Doyle has been appointed President and Chief Operating Officer.

For the quarter ended March 31, 2010, the State Street Private Equity Index posted a 2.22% return.

401(k) Rekon, a Wilmington, North Carolina-based provider of adviser research and education, has opened an office near Phoenix, Arizona, the company announced. 

ConvergEx Group has named Jeff Pettiford as a senior vice president in Plan Sponsor Sales. 

Exchange traded fund (ETF) industry assets in the U.S. decreased 0.4% during the first half of 2010, as investors held $772 billion in 897 ETFs as of June...

A new nationwide survey issued by Citi shows there is a widening divide between men’s and women’s outlook for the economy and their own financial situations.

Those closest to retirement are at the greatest risk of depleting their nest egg, but not as many fall into this category as was the case in 2003.

MassMutual Retirement Services Division has appointed two new third-party administrator (TPA) relationship managers.

If you sit at a desk, in meetings, or in a car most of your work day, you should know that the longer you sit, the shorter your...