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A survey of more than 1,000 financial professionals elicited mixed opinions on the effectiveness and reliability of guaranteed income products such as annuities.

The new product automates the process of optimizing asset location to boost an investor's cumulative after-tax returns.

The firm says the Essential Choice sales tool rationalizes and automates small-plan sales. 

ERISA Section 502(a)(3) may extend to remedy inequitable conduct pertaining to a supposed waiver of plan rights and to a breach of the general good faith standard of...

More than half of broker/dealers surveyed by the LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute believe some of their advisers will retire rather than sell under the new.

The SEC recently weighed in on whether offering a brokerage window in a 401(k) through which investments in employer securities can be made involves an offer of employer...

The high court has granted a stay on a lower court's mandate for Dignity Health to get its pension plan in compliance with ERISA.

Daily news headlines on “Brexit” and other complicated global events may push the financial markets into occasional uncertainty, but there's plenty advisers can do to help mitigate the...

Fidelity finds the number of financial advisers who see opportunity in DOL conflict of interest reform has more than doubled in recent months; other advisers are planning to...

Mobile banking apps are the most commonly used online tool.

However, only 24% of workers are covered by a pension.

Electrical equipment installation company Steven Keares Inc. owes more than $166,000 to the plan.

Segal Names National Director of Multiemployer Consulting; and Cammack Expands into Southeast With Addition of Consultant.

The Retirement Enhancements and Savings Act of 2016 includes many other provisions that address plan sponsors' needs and questions.

A UPMC hospital system subsidiary in Altoona, Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit claiming plan service provider CBIZ Benefits & Insurance Services made costly actuarial errors in projecting pension liabilities.

ERISA specialist Erin Sweeney recently attended a key hearing in one of the five ongoing pieces of litigation filed against the DOL fiduciary rule reforms; she offers an...

The DOL previously announced it is offering grants to facilitate research into retirement plans for low-wage earners.

The most overlooked source of data breaches is employee-related negligence, according to an IT firm which just launched an educational program for financial advisers.  

In light of the DOL’s Conflict of Interest Rule, the department is taking steps to assure that plan fiduciaries know exactly what they are providing in their TDFs,...

However, participants mostly stayed put, as trading activity was very low.