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Northern Trust subsidiary joins forces with alternatives specialist Aurora Investment Management; Vanguard Launches international high-dividend yield index fund and dividend appreciation index fund.  

Will those out of work be content to live a life of leisure? Can the global economy adapt to unemployment that’s greater than 50%?

When selecting a TDF, many retirement plan sponsors fail to look holistically at allocation and risk.

Retirement outcome success with the new military retirement system will depend much on participants making best savings decisions.

A survey reveals lessons from retirees for planning to pay expenses in retirement.

Research from LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute finds more Americans are entering and living in retirement with a mortgage representing their biggest source of debt.

It gets participants' portfolios on track and presents an opportunity to select lower-cost funds.

Empower Retirement has realigned and renamed its FASCore recordkeeping business to enhance retirement plan services for institutional clients. 

Pension consulting expert warns PBGC premiums have reached an unsustainable level for many plan sponsors. 

The GAO’s analysis of literature about replacement rates found that calculating an appropriate replacement rate can be complex.

A new report finds that women have substantially less income in retirement than men.

Target-date funds may not be a set-it-and-forget-it investment after all, according to a Financial Engines study.

Northwestern Mutual has issued a report to help people develop a strategy.

A new report from Market Strategies International finds asset managers and investment service providers may be overestimating client understanding of many of the buzz-word concepts taken for granted...

Transamerica takes a look at 16 factors making women anxious about retirement.

Seventy-six percent believe they will be worse off than their parents.

The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had a direct (but not necessarily pivotal) role in shaping many of the SCOTUS decisions tracked in recent years by the...

LIMRA Security Retirement Institute finds five separate insurance companies reported buy-out sales above $1 billion during 2015. 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics looked into factors that affect employer's costs for DB plans.

Instructions from the IRS now tell plan sponsors to skip them.