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Data from leading retirement plan recordkeepers shows 401(k) and IRA accounts have seen smaller losses than many broad market indices, thanks in no small part to the efforts...

Among the attractive but less-often-discussed features of collective investment trusts is the fact that the sponsoring trustee—a bank or trust company—must commit to acting in the best interest...

Industry analysts predict the younger workforce may shift its focus towards emergency savings, instead of retirement, as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. Advisers can help with this...

The firm is accused of disadvantaging certain retirement plan and charitable organization brokerage customers by failing to recognize and act on the fact that they were eligible for...

RiskFirst adds leader of business development; The Wagner Law Group launches Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice; Alight Solutions announces new CEO;...

Rutledge will remain with the Department of Labor through the end of May, at which time he will have been in the post of assistant secretary for the...

Firms keep rolling out new lifetime income solutions even as the industry struggles to overcome the challenges of a pandemic.

PAi will incorporate it into its current offerings for small business 401(k) plans and startups

Like many of us lucky enough to still be working during the pandemic, the Supreme Court is operating on a remote basis as the justices contemplate a case...

Data collected immediately before the pandemic shows retirement confidence was about as high as it’s ever been; more recent data shows that’s still the case, though shorter term...

Wells Fargo launches Retirement Income Solution, and Morningstar to acquire Sustainalytics.

However, the estimates do not reflect the potential outcomes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, says the Social Security Board of Trustees. 

A federal district court in New York has refused to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the InterContinental Hotels Group owes accelerated withdrawal payments to a national union pension plan.

Stable value funds took in 64% of the inflows and money market funds, 24%, according to the Alight Solutions 401(k) Index.

But retirement industry professionals can find ways to help improve their situations.

Investment managers say evidence is already mounting to show an outperformance of ESG-themed portfolios during the coronavirus pandemic. Might that help their popularity in the U.S.?

More than a handful of university 403(b) cases have been settled.

Among other things, the plaintiff alleged fiduciaries of the plan were imprudent in their consideration of participants’ varying interests and needs in the plan’s allocation structure and investment...

Iowa’s new proposed conflict of interest mitigation rules are based closely on the model framework finalized earlier this year by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners—with some important...