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Principal Pension Builder offers participants an income stream for life.

Phyllis Borzi revealed some of the thoughts behind certain DOL initiatives, and asked for help from the industry.

Spectrem study examines the role and scope of the relationship between wealthy investors and their financial advisers, finding most well-off clients want deeply considerate and personal service.

Most well-off Americans have found a steadier option than Social Security or pension: help from their networking circles.

The perceived cost of advice can prevent Americans actually seeking it.

Those with the highest financial stress levels worry most about health insurance.

Head of insurance solutions at Lincoln Financial Distributors suggests advisers have as much to gain from education around long-term care planning as clients do. 

Affording their rent or mortgage comes up third. 

“Cost is not dispositive of prudence,” says Eugene Maloney with Federated Investors.

Plan sponsors need to understand the implications of how their plan’s TDFs may be affected by changing exposures to international stocks and bonds.

Speaking at a Brookings Institution public meeting, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez said he is “confident we will be making changes to improve and clarify our proposal.”

Compared with other generations, they want cheaper homes, more vacations, fewer working years.

Global retirement readiness rankings are inherently subjective and often controversial, but Mercer says the U.S. is clearly slipping compared with some other developed nations.  

It’s a trite-but-true piece of retirement planning advice: consciously consider your nonessential expenses and you’ll be surprised what you could save.

Thinking the retirement industry has failed to deliver on its goals, state governments are trying to get into the retirement business.

This week brings new hires, promotions and acquisitions at T. Rowe Price, Wilshire Consulting, Envisage, and more.

The company launched the “Let’s Go!” program corresponding with National Save for Retirement Week.

Academic scholar and adviser to the Georgetown Center for Retirement Initiatives shares his ideas for creating state-supported “individual DBs” to bring workplace retirement benefits to more private-sector workers.

Process Unity unveils new integration with Salesforce, while BlackRock adds to its lineup of sustainable investing funds.

The way investors treat their assets is changing, especially among Millennials.