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Forty-three percent of pre-retirees who work with an adviser feel well prepared for retirement, compared to 21% who have no adviser.

At a recent PLANADVISER focus group event, it was evident that small- and mid-market plan sponsors had little interest in “white labeling” investments—and their rationale might surprise you. 

The Shrinking Emergency Account Losses (SEAL) Act would allow employees to continue to contribute to their DC plans during the six months following a hardship withdrawal, among other...

Advisers can help with best practices as plan sponsors are increasingly taking it upon themselves to devise their own communication strategies to engage their participants.

Morningstar Developing Enhanced Risk Identifying Solution; and Toroso Launches New ETF Index

 

However, they view U.S. equity valuations as getting less attractive and see a risk to the markets trajectory if the Trump administration cannot enact legislation that supports improved...

A new survey by CFO Research and Prudential finds most financial executives believe a financially secure workforce has a major positive effect on their bottom line.

Small-business employees in Connecticut will soon be able to access retirement planning services administered by the state, and their employers have a variety of opinions about what this...

One behavior that could hold Millennials back is a preference to save cash for a rainy day rather than invest for the future, a survey finds.

The IRS’s proposed increases in mortality assumptions will raise PBGC premiums for single-employer pension plans from $8.6 billion to $9.6 billion.

The DOL's Employee Benefit Security Administration hopes a new initiative will help it “overcome the limitations seen in existing data collection activities.”

The agency offers two examples for determining the highest outstanding loan balance in the past year and says, "the law does not clearly preclude either computation."

The second amended complaint in a lawsuit accusing the Walt Disney Company of wrongdoing under ERISA fails to plausibly demonstrate that fiduciary breaches occurred, a district court ruled. 

The Trump Administration’s Department of Labor still has not amended or replaced the Obama-era fiduciary rule as it has pledged to do; it has simply issued a brief...

A new study by the Center for Retirement Research explores the modern state of the individual retirement account and those who invest in it.

In the underlying complaint, the advisory firm was lumped together with the plan sponsor/recordkeeper and accused of permitting fiduciary breaches under ERISA. 

Twenty-seven percent of parents surveyed say they have withdrawn from retirement savings to help cover student loan payments.

Fiduciaries of the Weinhagen Tire Company 401(k) Plan agreed to an order resolving the DOL's lawsuit claiming the fiduciaries allowed the misdirection and misuse of employee contributions.

Neuberger Berman has created a framework for retirement plan sponsors considering including SRI strategies in their plans.

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and FP Transitions have teamed up to help new financial planners find opportunities in existing firms' succession plans.