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Vanguard announced intentions to streamline its investment offerings by merging five funds that have similar objectives and investment strategies.

Charles Schwab added 16 exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to the Schwab ETF OneSource platform, bringing the total number of ETFs available through the platform to 121.

Transamerica Retirement Solutions announced the expansion of its pension sales and distribution team with the hiring of Ty Minnich and Cathy Berg.

Wilton, Connecticut-based Commonfund announced three new appointments to support and contribute to the expansion of its Multi-Asset Program for mid-sized nonprofit clients.

Gina Gurgiolo has joined the consulting team of Plan Sponsor Advisors (PSA) as a senior investment consultant.

Touchstone Investments has launched a new alternative investment called the Touchstone Arbitrage Fund.

Retirement plan participants may be more open to changes in the design of their plans than previously thought, according to a new study.

Young workers with small balances and owners of Roth individual retirement accounts (IRAs) are likelier than other IRA owners to make “extreme” allocations to either stocks or money,...

A best-practice defined contribution (DC) plan can provide secure retirement income at equivalent cost to a defined benefit (DB) plan, according to a new research paper from the...

Registered investment advisers (RIAs) look at alternative investments and tactical management as the keys to navigating volatility in the current market.

 Motivating someone to plan for an event that is years or even decades away is difficult.

A program designed to help retirement plan sponsors adequately review the success of their plans has been rolled out.

Patrick M. Murphy has been named head of New York Life Retirement Plan Services (RPS).

MSCI Inc., a provider of investment research and decision support tools, unveiled a collection of environment, social and governance (ESG) data and related quantitative analysis tools to facilitate...

To advisers, it’s poor money habits. To sponsors, it’s inadequate participant engagement in the workplace retirement plan. But the result is the same: room for improvement.

Retirement plan and investment consulting firm Plan Sponsor Advisors (PSA) hired Gina Gurgiolo as a senior investment consultant. 

Beyond the company website, an asset manager’s digital presence is critical, and three in five advisers judge asset managers by their Internet activity.

The hundreds of investment management firms with membership in the Investment Company Institute (ICI) are “deeply concerned” about the potential of a federal government default, especially those with...

Retirement solutions and financial services provider MullinTBG, a Prudential Financial Inc. company, added seven to its sales and client services lineup.

A new paper gives sponsors of defined contribution (DC) plans some guidance on evaluating glide paths for target-date funds (TDFs).