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TIAA-CREF has introduced the Lifecycle Retirement Income Fund, intended for investors who are nearing retirement, are looking to roll over assets to an IRA from a retirement plan,...

A federal judge in Indiana is allowing a Merrillville, Indiana law firm to continue with its lawsuit against its 401(k) investment managers and recordkeeper over the amount of...

Standard&Poor’s has launched a family of indices designed to model common arbitrage strategies in the financial markets.

UBS Global Asset Management is teaming with Genworth Financial to introduce a guaranteed income for life option.

After months of research, informal talks with vendors, and not a few inquiries to a few “trusted advisers,″ just before Christmas, we finally made our decision.

After months of research, informal talks with vendors, and not a few inquiries to a few “trusted advisers,″ just before Christmas, we finally made our decision.

More than 50 international iShares funds, all of which previously distributed income annually, will begin distributing income twice per year.

CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc., has created a new division to offer common remitter and compliance services to 403(b) retirement plan sponsors.

After declaring that none of the six major insurance providers accused in a commission conspiracy were fiduciaries under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) a federal judge...

Shifting two hours per week from administrative duties to selling can result in millions of dollars in incremental sales for companies.

As a result of a difference in their length of time in the workforce, women who were older than 50 in 2006 were much less likely to have...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that a new version of Form 4461-A, “Application for Approval of Master or Prototype or Volume Submitter Defined Benefit Plan,″ has been...

They say you get what you pay for – but maybe it just feels that way.

401(k) participants had equities on their minds in December, according to the latest Hewitt 401(k) Index data.

FundQuest, a global provider of managed account investment solutions for financial institutions and advisers, has hired Leslie Prescott as Director of Retirement Management Solutions.

The Online 401(k) will now offer automatic plan features to its small and single-proprietor business clients.

Dow Jones Indexes and Wilshire Associates have announced that Bahrain, Kuwait and Sri Lanka will be added to the Dow Jones Wilshire Global index family.

A Newton, Massachusetts firm, I-Pension LLC, has launched a new retirement plan investment advice program.

Investors who add a variable annuity with a lifetime guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefit (GMWB) to a stock and bond retirement portfolio can enjoy pumped up income with less...

Causing a stir among Wall Street pundits, the state of New Jersey’s $80-billion pension plan will take equity positions in both Citigroup and Merrill Lynch&Co. – both suffering...