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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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J.P. Morgan Asset Management has introduced a new design for the core menu line-up in defined contribution plans, called Core Menu Innovation (CMI).

Fidelity Investments has expanded its emerging markets fund offering with the Fidelity Total Emerging Markets Fund and Fidelity Emerging Markets Discovery Fund.

Two recent proposals to change the existing tax treatment of 401(k) retirement plans, if enacted, are likely to result in lower account balances for many 401(k) participants, according...

Despite the fact that most Social Security reform proposals would result in fewer benefits for future retirees, an offsetting gain would be the decrease in payroll taxes needed...

The Hartford has launched an online educational resource to help consumers identify potential financial risks and better understand their benefits options. 

Sapient Private Wealth Management, an independent registered investment adviser (RIA), has joined the Focus Financial network.  

Among institutional asset owners, not a single category reported positive median returns during the third quarter, according to the Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service (Wilshire TUCS).

Rogerscasey has hired Peter Gerlings as Managing Director, Investment Solutions.

More than 30 House Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, thanking her for withdrawing the proposed rule for the redefinition of “fiduciary.”