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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.

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., has appointed Mark Scalercio as national sales manager for government-sponsored retirement plans in the Retirement Plans Group.

In a move the firm said will “better position investors to realize their retirement savings goals,” the JPMorgan SmartRetirement Fund expense caps have been lowered.

TD AMERITRADE Institutional launched a transition tool for breakaway brokers.

Parents who use advisers would like more help with college-related decisions, according to a Fidelity survey.

Rocky D'Alessandro joined the Advisor Service Team at Alliance Benefit Group (ABG) Carolinas, a third-party retirement plan administration and recordkeeping firm.

A trade group representing retirement services industry providers has recommended the creation of a mandatory standardized 401(k) plan.

MFS Investment Management has introduced Advanced (k), a program designed to help retirement platform wholesalers and retirement advisers expand their retirement plan practice.

Rampart Investment Management, an asset management firm specializing in option strategies, has appointed Richard R. Davis as senior vice president of sales and consultant relations.

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) announced SPDR Wells Fargo Preferred Stock ETF (symbol: PSK) began trading on the NYSE Arca today with an annual 0.45% expense ratio.

Variable annuities are now more widely held than fixed annuities among nonqualified annuity owners, according to a Gallup poll.

Prudential Annuities, the domestic annuity business of Prudential Financial, Inc., announced Tim Seifert joined the company as a vice president and director of National Sales.

Schiff Hardin LLP has announced that former assistant secretary of labor for employee benefits Bradford P. Campbell joined the firm’s Washington, D.C., office in the Employee Benefits and...

Schwab Advisor Services unveiled enhancements, including a waiver of fees for its merger and acquisition listing service, an online version of its Scorecard tool, and a new client...

Standard & Poor's Index Services has launched what it says is "the first ever public index series designed to measure the average cost of borrowing U.S. equities."

A CareerBuilder survey found more than one-in-five (21%) workers said they have reduced their 401(k) contributions or personal savings in the last six months to get by financially.

Lincoln Financial Distributors, the intermediary distribution company of Lincoln Financial Group, has announced John C. Kennedy has joined the firm as head of Retirement Solutions Distribution.