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Leaders of the Insured Retirement Institute expect “swift and significant legislative reaction” if the Department of Labor’s fiduciary redefinition proposal closely resembles a preliminary version filed in 2010.

Nearly nine in 10 households oppose any action by the government taking away the tax advantages of DC retirement accounts.

Pershing rolled out the Retirement Plan Network, which aims to help broker/dealers, investment advisers and registered investment advisers (RIAs) expand their retirement business.

Advisers should look to Millennials—even those who haven’t yet become wealthy—as the next promising and uncrowded market, a survey by TD Ameritrade says.

The U.S. Labor Department filed a complaint against a Rochester, New York, investment adviser and plan administrator to recover losses suffered as result of alleged fiduciary breaches.

Baby Boomers will be pleased to know that cognitive aging does not necessarily hamper financial decision-making, a study says.

The DOL has issued guidance about new DB plan funding notice requirements of the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014.

A PIMCO Total Return Fund investor lawsuit calls into question compensation paid to former co-chief investment officers and co-chief executive officers Mohamed El-Erian and Bill Gross.

Just 0.022% of total defined contribution (DC) plan assets traded in December 2014, with a slight majority of days (55%) favoring equities over fixed-income assets, Aon Hewitt data...

The surviving spouse of a fully vested participant in a FedEx pension plan claims she is being unlawfully denied a survivor annuity benefit owed to her by the...

A committee tasked with considering a state-established retirement plan for private-sector employees has issued its recommendation report.

Equities captured the majority of fund inflows in 2014.

PLANADVISER announced today the winners of the second annual Advisers’ Choice Awards, to be handed out at its annual PLANSPONSOR/PLANADVISER Awards for Excellence dinner. The event will be...

A survey finds the majority of DC plan sponsors that offer company stock as an investment option have no plans to make changes to the offer, despite a...

About one in 10 plan sponsors replaced their target-date fund/balanced fund manager in 2014.

Incapital and Nuveen Asset Management created an equity unity trust built around Bob Doll’s 2015 market predictions, released January 7.

Mergers and acquisitions among health care organizations continue to affect not-for-profit health care organizations and their retirement plan investing decisions.

The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted several sets of rules and proposed others related to data collection and reporting for security-based swap data repositories.

Plan Administrators Inc. launched the Co-Pilot 401(k) program, aimed at addressing the challenges faced by retirement plan investors and their advice providers.

People with upbeat outlooks enjoy significantly better cardiovascular health, suggests a new study that examined associations between optimism and heart health in more than 5,100 adults.