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Mike DiCenso joined MassMutual’s Retirement Services Division as institutional segment market leader.

Andrew Gracan joined Great-West Financial as regional sales director of national accounts in the Northeast.

A number of firms that manage money market mutual funds have made comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about proposed reforms of such funds.

Since its introduction nearly 30 years ago, the 401(k) has evolved from a perk for high-paid executives to an essential benefit to finance the retirement of the middle...

The DoubleLine Shiller Enhanced CAPE Fund uses the long-term stock valuation principles of Nobel Prize-winning Yale economics professor Robert Shiller.  

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released the cost-of-living adjustments for 2014, which affect dollar limitations for pension plans and other retirement-related items.

The number of hedge funds employing lockup periods during which investors must wait to reclaim assets shrunk in recent years, according to research from eVestment.

The House voted Tuesday to pass the Retail Investor Protection Act, which would delay any fiduciary updates issued by the Department of Labor (DOL) or the Securities and...

U.S. households are showing the same reluctance to take on investment risk that they did after the 2008 financial crisis, a study found.

Retirement plan participants need more education about contribution deferral limits, according to a recent survey.

An expanded third-party administrator (TPA) network is in the works for ASPire Financial Services LLC.

The Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. hopes to onboard independent third-party administrators (TPAs) through a new sales program offering exclusive territories and support tools.

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.