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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...

State Street Global Advisors’ (SSgA) US-Listed ETF Industry Review and 2008 Outlook shows 2007 was a record year for exchange-traded fund (ETF) asset growth, trading volume, and product...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that defrauded shareholders should not necessarily be allowed to sue advisers, lawyers, accountants, and vendors that serve the company that committed the...

A Portland, Maine-based provider of environmental, social, and governance research, and consulting has released two new indexes aimed at faith-based investors.

Investors looking for a new measure of socially responsive portfolios can now tap into one that purports to track the performance of companies that adhere to Dharmic principles.

OneChicago, LLC, the all-electronic exchange for trading Single Stock Futures (SSFs), a synthetic stock lending and financing tool, today launched the trading of two additional SSFs on exchange-traded...

Affluent seniors over age 70 spend nearly three times as much of their online time on financial matters as those younger.

Today, PLANSPONSOR announces the finalists for its annual Retirement Plan Adviser and Adviser Team of the Year awards.

Financial-services market research firm Dalbar Inc. is launching Compliance Support Services’ (CSS), a new division dedicated to addressing the increasing risk and complexity faced by compliance departments.

Fidelity Investments will reopen its widely known Magellan Fund to new investors as of Tuesday for the first time in a decade, the Boston financial services firm announced.

A former AXA Equitable Life Insurance investment adviser has pled guilty to stealing $1.7 million from Colorado public school teachers.

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Co. has launched a new distribution channel focused on providing retirement plan strategies and solutions for Fortune 1000 corporations and their employees.