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Socially responsible investing is no longer just a matter of screening out companies with interests in the “big five” industries—alcohol, tobacco, gambling, pornography and firearms.

Participants in employer-sponsored retirement plans are prepared to reduce 401(k) account contributions to mitigate worries over health care expenses, the Mercer Workplace Survey finds.

W.E. Donoghue & Co., Inc. (WEDCO) has launched the Power Dividend Index Fund.

American Century Investments has launched a new online tool for retirement plan sponsors and advisers to better assess plan effectiveness.

A federal district court in northern Indiana ruled a retirement plan sponsor must pay nearly $4,500 in penalties for failing to provide historical, plan-related documents.

The Department of Labor (DOL) won judgment from a federal district court to have funds restored to a retirement plan based in Ayer, Massachusetts.

Nationwide Retirement Solutions now offers comprehensive, mobile-optimized access to its public-sector retirement plan website without use of an application (app).

Higher education institutions across the U.S. are enacting plan consolidations and refining features to drive down costs, a Transamerica report shows.

The American Benefits Council wants to clarify possible misconceptions surrounding deficit information from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).

The annual report of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) puts the agency’s deficit at about $36 billion for the 2013 fiscal year.

The value for the Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index has increased since October.

Retirement plan participants said that they control two-thirds of their assets by themselves without the assistance of an adviser.

The use of multiple asset-allocation models is essential to mitigate risk in a post credit crisis world, according to a new whitepaper from NEPC LLC.

The firm hired Todd Burchett as a vice president and portfolio adviser within its portfolio management team.

Revisions to the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) rules governing contributions to safe harbor 401(k) and 403(b) plans make it easier for struggling companies to reduce or suspend those...

The Aon Hewitt 401(k) Index showed six days of above-normal daily transfer activity during the month of October.

Custodia Financial is partnering with TSA Consulting Group, a provider of retirement plans administration services.

Equity funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are on track to attract $450 billion in 2013.

Research from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) reveals that more employees are preserving their retirement savings as they change jobs.

Fidelity Investments says the average balance of its 401(k) plan accounts rose to a record high of $84,300 at the end of the third quarter.