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The SPARK Institute has filed a 13-page comment letter with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about the new 403(b) retirement savings plan regulations, asking for an extension of...

New York City comptroller William Thompson said he will investigate whether the failure of Bear Stearns&Co was due to miscalculation or deception.

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, announced that the SPDR DB International Government Inflation-Protected Bond ETF (Ticker: WIP) began trading on...

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is launching a customized service to help retirees actively manage their invested assets and spending in retirement.

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is launching a customized service to help retirees actively manage their invested assets and spending in retirement.

JennisonDryden Mutual Funds has recently launched the Dryden US Equity Active Extension Fund (Ticker: DUEAX), managed by Quantitative Management Associates (QMA).

Although the majority of people think about what they will need to have saved for retirement, there is confused about how to determine what their lifestyle in retirement...

Nearly half (46%) of pre-retirees and more than one-quarter (28%) of retirees who use financial advisers surveyed reported that neither they nor their adviser have developed a formal...

M Financial Group announced that Garden City, New York-based Chernoff Diamond&Co., LLC, has become a Provisional Member Firm.

401kDIRECT, founder of the CIF Marketplace, and EPIC Advisors, Inc. have introduced an expanded service offering combining back office administration with the ability to access multiple collective investment...

Nationwide Financial has launched a new Web site to provide investment professionals with tools and resources they can use to help build their retirement plan business.

When a co-worker forwarded to me an e-mail about Eliot Spitzer’s alleged tie with a prostitution ring last week, I thought it was a joke.

When a co-worker forwarded to me an e-mail about Eliot Spitzer’s alleged tie with a prostitution ring last week, I thought it was a joke.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued Announcement 2008-23, which lays out a new simplified process for obtaining determination letters for pre-approved defined contribution plans.

Plan sponsors may say they are comfortable with fee disclosure efforts as they exist now, but a new study asserts that many of them are racked with under-the-surface...

ING presented information during a Web cast on Friday that gives sponsors, and the advisers who help them, an outline of the impact of the 403(b) regulations and...

A new firm that focuses on the entrepreneurial company’s need for impartial advice on retirement planning has entered the market.

It didn’t take long for the news from Bear Stearns to draw the attention of the plaintiffs’ bar.

Monumental Life Insurance Company has introduced the Architect Rider, an optional guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit (GLWB), available on the no up-front sales load Advisor’s Edge Variable Annuity.

Standard&Poor’s has announced the launch of two real-time currency indices that provide investors with exposure to emerging economic superpowers that currently lack a liquid currency futures market.