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The complexity of alternative investments prevents many financial advisers from advocating their addition to client portfolios, despite the diversity and volatility advantages alternatives can confer.

The effective retirement age for Social Security is now 70, according to a new research brief from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

Northern Trust has launched a new iPad application (app) designed to provide executive-level users with performance, exposure and risk information they need.

Mutual of Omaha’s retirement plans division has added LPL Financial’s retirement advice and education solutions to its 401(k) products.

Wi-Fi, attractions, free breakfast and pet-friendly hotels are choice, but for most travelers, it’s the whole package that counts when choosing a hotel.

During National Save for Retirement Week, advisers might meet with their plan sponsors to consider advice for plan participants, who generally take positive action afterwards.

The Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) has relaunched its IRIonline.org website.

The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) made several recommendations to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about proposed regulations for plan filings on magnetic media.

Employees, especially Baby Boomers, are facing a shortfall when it comes to their retirement savings, a survey found.

Growing levels of student loan debt could force today’s college graduates to retire more than a decade beyond the current average retirement age.

We have reached an inflexion point in America.  Boomers are pouring into retirement age at a pace of 10,000 per day.

BPAS, a provider of retirement plan services in partnership with financial intermediaries, added Brian Nicholson to its sales team as a relationship manager and external wholesaler.

Lingering financial strains exacerbated by slow economic growth continue to push middle class workers’ priorities away from retirement savings and towards monthly expenses, according to the 2013 Wells...

Putnam Investments appointed Steven McKay as national sales manager for its adviser-sold defined contribution business.

Two-thirds of advisers lack succession plans, Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services found.

Great-West Financial appointed Torry LeRoux to a new regional director position created within the firm’s financial institutions business.

Since the end of the recession, there are more older Americans in the work force, according to a recent Gallup poll.

While Americans still want home ownership, freedom from debt is more important, said respondents to a survey from loanDepot.com, LLC.

It’s National Save for Retirement Week, and ING U.S. is using the event to promote a multimedia customer education campaign ending October 26.

BNY Mellon and CIBC Mellon, the bank’s joint venture with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, have merged the firms’ respective securities lending desks.