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The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has proposed a regulation for assessing civil penalties against plan administrators who fail to disclose certain documents to participants, beneficiaries, and others...

Great-West Retirement Services has introduced a new non-qualified savings plan to help small business owners and their executives accumulate retirement savings above the limitations of qualified retirement plans.

Matrix Financial Solutions, a provider of back-office, trust, custody, trading, and mutual fund settlement services for financial institutions, has acquired ICC Plan Solutions, a provider of communication materials...

CitiStreet has announced plans for PlanFIRST, a new Web site around which its lineup of fiduciary services will be organized.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has published final regulations on premium rates and payment of premiums mandated by provisions of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 and...

Batterymarch Financial Management, a Boston-based institutional equity manager, has launched a U.S. large capitalization value equity portfolio.

When asked what issues would have the most significant impact on businesses in 2008, advisers are most concerned about market performance/volatility (58%), retiring Boomers (54%), and the real...

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Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin) introduced legislation on Thursday designed to protect American workers by ensuring they can access information on the cost of...

Americans' retirement savings grew in the second quarter of 2007 to $17.4 trillion, according to the latest Investment Company Institute (ICI) data.

As the year comes to a close, advisers are planning ahead for 2008 and, according to a recent poll by the SEI Advisor Network, advisers’ New Years resolutions...

Mobile, Alabama-based recordkeeper DailyAccess Corporation has announced the creation of an Institutional Sales team.

Minot, North Dakota-based Integrity Mutual Funds, Inc. has launched the second phase of its new website campaign.

Nonqualified executive benefit plan provider MullinTBG has launched a new “life-long” executive benefits program.

Raleigh, NC-based Schwab Performance Technologies (SPT) has entered into an agreement to acquire RIA back office outsourcing provider Etelligent Consulting, Inc.

The Hartford has made another acquisition – this time Sun Life Retirement Services (U.S.), Inc. (RSI), a 401(k) plan administration business.

A new Lincoln Retirement Institute survey of Baby Boomers and retirees (age 42+) reveals the majority would like a retirement planning do-over.

Federal regulators on Wednesday issued the second of a three-part disclosure rule package – proposed mandates for detailed disclosures from service providers to plan fiduciaries.

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