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New investment services technologies will strain existing financial advice models, but the same factors should continue to define who succeeds in the marketplace.

J. Scott Davison will begin serving as chief executive officer for the companies of OneAmerica on April 1.

Thirty percent of respondents to a recent survey note a higher plan participation rate for nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC) plans.

Many retirement plan committees do not have a charter, and often those that do find it fails to provide adequate guidance because it is not specific enough to...

When recruiting, don’t automatically look past wirehouse advisers, says Neal Simon of Highline Wealth Management, because they might be a firm’s value add. 

Retirement plan sponsors have a two-year window to adopt newly updated pre-approved plan documents.

FCRC Apps LLC, a financial services application developer, added a new embedded surveying feature to its suite of digital fiduciary governance support tools offered through eFiduciary.net.

For February, the average cost of purchasing annuities from an insurer decreased slightly from 108.5% to 108.4% of the accounting liability, according to the Mercer U.S. Pension Buyout...

A new online personal financial planning and budgeting tool from ING U.S. enables users to organize, integrate and manage all their money matters on a single platform.

Rob Corlito joined the retirement plan services division at Sapers & Wallack, an employee benefits and financial services consulting firm in Newton, Massachusetts.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently made analyses related to money market fund reform available to the public.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) imposed a $950,000 fine on LPL Financial LLC for supervisory deficiencies related to the sale of various alternative investment products.

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Total U.S. retirement assets reached $23 trillion at year-end 2013, growing 15.6% during the year, according to an analysis from the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

The Department of Labor (DOL) has filed a lawsuit to remove and replace a 401(k) plan trustee for failing to perform his duties.

Judging whether conflict of interest rules permit an adviser to recommend rollovers—under both current law and the pending fiduciary redefinition—hinges on three important considerations.

In prior decades, international and emerging market stocks were good investments to get diversification for a retirement plan portfolio, but things have changed.

Participants might respond better to education if it’s more like a game, says Chris Whitlow of edu(k)ate, an app developer that delivers gameified financial literacy.

Lincoln Financial Group appointed Sean Duncan as an institutional business development director within the firm’s retirement plan services business.

Global markets are well past the point where investors can ignore the sustainability profile of the stocks and bonds they’re holding, says Gerrit Heyns of Osmosis Investment Management.