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This week’s new investment products and services include an absolute return fund from Goldman Sachs; a book about stable value investing from Stable Value Consultants; and the launch...

PBGC anticipates about 94% of plans and sponsors will be exempt from many reporting requirements.

Hearings before two House Financial Services subcommittees add more commentary to the debate about the DOL's proposed fiduciary rule.

The company will pay $2.5 million.

The proposed fiduciary rule would protect investors with slender assets in rollovers, DOL says.

The latest research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates finds that the advisory industry’s external wholesaler headcount will begin to decline through 2020.

As kids return to school, expect higher use of personal tech devices—because teachers value their place in education.

Americans on the whole are pretty fickle when it comes to money issues and retirement planning, showing equal parts optimism and pessimism.

A new asset location tool can help advisers enhance after-tax outcomes for their clients.

The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College asks what part an inheritance plays in reducing retirement uncertainty.

More than one in 10 Millennials seeking professional financial advice has fired an adviser during the last year. 

Clarifying regulations could help plan sponsors choose plan investments, the GAO says.

The guidance also contains final excise tax regulations applicable to both single-employer and multiemployer defined benefit plans.

An analysis found a 26% gap in the shortfall between men’s and women's retirement savings.

A safe harbor plan requires an initial plan year that is at least three full months, making October 1 the effective deadline for creating a new plan in...

The beginning of the school year is a time for retirement plan advisers to start new relationships and keep existing employees on track.

Retirement plan advisers should help clients understand their rights and ability to access past records after a change in recordkeeper or TPA.

Manulife expects the adoption of PFaroe risk analytics will complement its global liability-driven investing offering.

Retirement plans need a strategy for education, but an actual policy statement may not be needed, experts say.

It should benefit long-term investors when interest rates start ticking up, but some distressing client circumstances could coincide with a rate hike.