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The aggregate funded ratio for U.S. corporate defined benefit (DB) pension plans decreased to 86% in April, according to Wilshire Consulting.

The smallest of employers are gaining enough confidence in the economic growth of their businesses to increase efforts to help employees save for retirement.

A myriad of factors are driving growth in the DCIO (defined contribution investment only) market, and assets look likely to keep on mounting.

Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. established a new partnership with the 401k Study Group to bring expanded education and networking resources to its advisory and broker/dealer staff.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management has revamped its Target Date Compass Program to help financial advisers steer plan sponsor clients through an increasingly complex target-date fund (TDF) selection process.

Invesco PowerShares Capital Management has launched the PowerShares Variable Rate Preferred Portfolio (VRP).

Envestnet, Inc. has enhanced the capabilities of its Impact Investing Solutions platform, through which retirement plan clients can develop socially responsible investing (SRI) programs.

U.S. Retirement Partners (USRP), through its U.S. Employee Benefits Services Group (USEBSG) division, has acquired the Common Remitter Services business of CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc.

Abandoned 401(k) accounts don’t do anyone any good, and they just may be hitting critical mass, according to the Retirement Clearinghouse.

You’ll be eating local, gluten-free, vegetarian and environmentally in the months ahead, according to the National Restaurant Association.

Work will be a part of Baby Boomers’ lives even into the retirement years, a survey finds.

More Americans realize they aren’t on track to meet retirement income needs, according to Northwestern Mutual, but the country as a whole is struggling to address longevity risk.

Matrix Financial Solutions selected Risk Compliance Performance Solutions (RCP) to provide uncashed check mitigation services to its qualified retirement plan clients.

MassMutual Retirement Services appointed Steven Mendelsohn as national practice leader for the firm’s defined benefit actuarial consulting practice.

The attractiveness of pension annuitization, as tracked by Dietrich & Associates’ Pension Risk Transfer Index, is relatively unchanged from March.

Data about organizations' searches for investment managers reflects a shift toward non-traditional asset mandates.

Retirement planning software provider Trust Builders, Inc. is partnering with employee benefits and compliance expert Kristi Cook on the next release of The Retirement Analysis Kit (TRAK) system.

In 2010, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) launched a large compliance project, the 401(k) Questionnaire.

Technology can replicate the value of a good assistant.

When a participant terminates employment is not the only time defined contribution (DC) retirement plan account balances may be forfeited, and there are several ways to deal with...