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Retirement advice professionals must confront some acute challenges in the months and years ahead to ensure their ability to support clients—and grow their own firms—remains intact.

A group of retirement industry representatives recently sent a comment letter to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) emphasizing the need for uninterrupted access to the Social Security...

The Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index, which tracks the relative attractiveness of annuitizing pension liabilities, remained basically unchanged through February and into March.

A skilled active manager can add notable value to investment portfolios compared with less-skilled managers and passive investments, according to a recent white paper from RidgeWorth Investments.

A federal court judge has denied a motion for immediate review by an appellate panel of one of the ongoing “church plan” cases.

Advisers can put their proficiency in alternative investments to the test with the Fundamentals of Alternative Investments Certificate.

The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP) will recognize the importance of financial wellness and retirement security on the 10th annual National Employee Benefits Day, April 2.

For the United States, the estimated cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, of a retiree annuity purchase remained level during January at 108.5%, according to the Mercer...

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve said in its March statement it will dump the 6.5% unemployment rate threshold to push forward rate guidance. 

Great-West Lifeco Inc., which owns investment services firms Great-West Financial and Putnam Investments, will combine the retirement businesses of both subsidiary companies.

The ADP Mobile Solutions application, which allows people to access their retirement account information via smartphones, is now available in the Amazon Appstore.

Fidelity was able to convince an appellate court to vacate some of the decisions made against it in the widely watched case of Tussey v. ABB, Inc.

Alliance Benefit Group (ABG), a network of 14 regional consulting and financial services firms, launched the 401(k) Choice platform for broker/dealers and financial advisers working with retirement plans.

PlanPilot, a retirement plan services consulting firm, is offering a new plan design database that supports higher education retirement plans.

The financial health of the largest U.S. corporate defined benefit (DB) pension plans improved during 2013, says a new analysis.

The Department of Labor (DOL) is seeking approval to have an independent fiduciary appointed for an abandoned New York City retirement plan.

Retirement plan technology providers fi360 and Castle Rock Innovations launched a collaborate solution that combines the firms’ various data technologies and adviser tool sets.

Pensionmark Retirement Group recently launched its Employer Document Vault, an enterprise-level document storage system that can manage thousands of client records and millions of documents.

Families want a mix of activities while on vacation, and they’re looking to connect with one another, a survey says. 

Since the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed including lifetime income illustrations on retirement plan participant statements, no doubt most in the industry have assumed the information would come...