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Americans held $17.6 trillion in retirement assets at the end of 2007, up $1.1 trillion from year-end 2006, according to a report from the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

UBS Financial Services Inc. reached an agreement with Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley to return $37 million to 17 cities and towns, as well as to the Massachusetts...

Charles P. Nelson was appointed President of Great-West Retirement Services.

A bill allowing the state of Connecticut to sponsor a 401(k) plan for small businesses apparently was a casualty of the last-minute scramble by lawmakers to end their...

Federal benefit plans regulators on Thursday assured plan sponsors that paying strict attention to plan reporting rules was actually to their advantage.

A top Department of Labor (DoL) benefits regulator on Thursday revealed that the agency is studying ways to help 403(b) plan sponsors better deal with the difficult problem...

Morgan Stanley will issue two exchange-traded notes (ETNs), which aim to provide leveraged directional exposure to the euro/U.S. dollar exchange rate.

Although Hispanic Americans are saving for retirement, more than two-thirds do not use a financial adviser, a study by Prudential found.

Close to three-quarters of women who are very confident about retirement savings have the help of a professional adviser, a study by Prudential says.

You can file this one under “people with way too much time on their hands.″

The SPARK Institute released final versions of its "Best Practices for 403(b) Plans" and a sample Information Sharing Agreement (ISA).

Wealthcare Capital Management offers a “fee compliance kit” to help employers ensure that their 401(k) fee structure would meet Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) standards.

Whether they’re Millennials, Generation Xers or Boomers, American women are actively considering their future retirement and financial security, a survey said.

Schwab Funds added its first actively managed international fund, called the Schwab International Core Equity Fund.

Strong returns in April helped world equity markets bounce back from a bad start in 2008, according to data from Standard&Poor’s.

Forty percent of high-net-worth individuals are concerned with the risk of not being able to live comfortably on their available level of income in retirement, said a survey...

F-Squared Investments, LLC, will introduce a separately managed account (SMA) dubbed the Individually Managed Account (IMA).

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of two retirement plan administrators for Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) theft because of unpaid plan contributions.

Nationwide Financial Services, Inc., has sponsored PartnerUp, an online community designed to connect and provide resources to small business owners.

BenefitStreet, Inc., secured bridge financing and is now negotiating terms for an additional $10 to $20 million in longer-term funding.