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Defined contribution (DC) plan sponsors claim to have a higher level of confidence regarding their target-date fund offerings compared to a year ago, according to Janus Capital Group. 

According to a recent COUNTRY Financial survey, 58% of those closest to retirement (ages 50 to 64) had to dip into their savings to get through the recession.

Gosselin Consulting Group stresses the importance of understanding the different plan financing strategies on 401(k) plan participants in a recently published paper.

Prudential Retirement has launched a Web site that provides plan consultants, advisers, and sponsors multi-media content about retirement income.

U.S. companies should engage younger workers in defined contribution plans as soon as possible in order for them to have a realistic chance of achieving a financially secure retirement,...

The current selling process has shifted beyond the “gatekeeper” role for advisers, to one where the adviser or consultant is much more involved in the investment menu design...

Satisfying client expectations and the long-term viability of the advisory firms are the top two reasons advisers create a succession plan – personal retirement needs come in third.  

Strategic Insight (SI), an Asset International company, said U.S. exchange-traded funds (ETFs) experienced $19 billion in net inflows in October alone.

Thanks to demand for taxable bond funds, U.S. stock and bond mutual funds saw net inflows of $1.1 billion in October. 

Less than half of the Baby Boomer generation (Americans born between 1946 and 1964) say they feel confident they will be able to afford a comfortable retirement, down...

YRC Worldwide Inc. has agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle lawsuits brought by its employees over losses in their retirement accounts from investments in company stock.

Eighty percent of Fidelity Investment’s affluent customers expect market volatility to be the norm for the extended future.

EBSA created a new consumer assistance Web page that allows users to submit questions and complaints about health and retirement plans electronically.

Long-term mutual fund inflows were just $745 million in October, according to Morningstar. 

Teresa Ghilarducci, director of The New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), drafted a proposal to offer low-fee, low-risk personal retirement accounts to all workers by...

Two market-research firms have found that more than half of defined contribution plan participants do not have a relationship with a financial adviser around the time of retirement.  

Millennials are by far the most confident about their ability to make the right benefit decisions, according to The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America.

Eliminating retirement plan tax incentives could have a significant negative impact on retirement security by discouraging savings and reducing the number of plans offered, said small and medium-sized...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a record 735 enforcement actions in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, with 146 of these actions taken against investment...

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