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While attendees of a U.S. House subcommittee hearing agreed that the U.S. multiemployer pension system needs to be improved, they had differing opinions on how to achieve this.

What company policy? Generation Y employees said they would deliberately ignore corporate security measures surrounding the use of personal smart devices. 

A new study by John Hancock found that employees’ biggest retirement-related concern is the financial risk of rising health care costs.

The right metrics and valuation strategy can help defined contribution (DC) plan investment committees cut through the complexity of evaluating target-date fund (TDF) performance.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced a 1.5% benefit increase for 2014.

A new survey by Aon Hewitt revealed that employers are boosting efforts to help their employees save for retirement.

A series of animated “whiteboards,” released by New York Life Retirement Plan Services, aims to illustrate prominent 401(k) planning concepts for employer-sponsored retirement plan participants.

BNP Paribas Investment Partners Trust Company added a share class to offer employer-sponsored retirement plans access to its U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) comingled investment fund.

Updates to the Department of Labor’s (DOL) fiduciary definition could hinder financial advisers’ efforts to target retirement plan clients for individual retirement account (IRA) rollovers.

John Hancock Investments has hired three new managing directors for its Institutional team.

The two-week government shutdown in October delayed the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) work on the fiduciary redefinition, according to Assistant Secretary of Labor Phyllis Borzi.

U.S. workers hold almost half of their investable assets in low- or no-return cash strategies, potentially jeopardizing retirement readiness in an effort to avoid risk.

Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC, an investment management firm, has named five new partners.

Improved corporate efficiency and earnings margins helped drive markets to record highs in 2013, but a number of trends could shift equity...

Health benefits costs will continue to increase despite the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and in some cases, because of it, according to Sheldon H. Smith,...

About 3,500 wealth management firms that custody at Fidelity will gain access to alternative investment funds, including hedge funds and private equity funds, through a strategic alliance with...

BNY Mellon has added the Liquidity Aggregator to its risk and collateral management-related services.

Automatic plan features, including do-it-for-me investments, have helped defined contribution (DC) plan sponsors.

Retirement investing is at the top of the financial to-do list for affluent Americans, according to Bank of America’s latest Merrill Edge Report.

Aon Hewitt has launched DC Nexus, a web-based solution for defined contribution (DC) recordkeeping clients and their advisers.