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The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has announced plans to change a 2007 mandate requiring that employers give participants more target-date fund information.

Participants in Transamerica Retirement Services’ client plans now have read-only access to their account information via an iPhone or iPod touch.

A new Putnam Investments survey found 14% of Americans plan to fully fund an IRA in 2010, down sharply from the 23% seen a year earlier.

Millennium Trust Company announced that J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services has chosen Millennium Trust's Automatic Rollover Solution for its clients and the clients' employees.

While long-term care costs continue to rise nationally, the cost for in-home care is rising at a much slower pace, according to Genworth’s 2010 Cost of Care Survey.

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri has approved a $925,000 settlement of a lawsuit claiming NovaStar Financial continued to offer company stock in its...

The latest whitepaper from Charles Schwab Advisor Services tackles how registered investment advisers (RIAs) can recruit the growing number of advisers going independent.

Advisers affiliated with Commonwealth Financial Network can now use widgets to customize their own version of COMMunity Link, Commonwealth’s adviser Web portal.

Franklin Templeton Investments and the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA) have announced additional investment options for the Franklin Templeton 529 College Savings Plan.

For the first time since Cogent Research has been tracking investor allocations, it says wealthy Americans now hold more assets in individual retirement accounts (IRAs) than in workplace-based...

A pair of litigators has teamed up to bring an ERISA class action suit against the Publishing House of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

A new product from Securian Financial Group is designed to help workers plan their retirement years.

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High-net-worth (HNW) consumers remain concerned about maintaining their lifestyle in retirement and slightly more concerned about paying for health care in retirement, according to a survey by The...

The HSBC Global Pulse survey found the top three financial worries are the same for citizens around the globe: taxes, wealth preservation, and retirement.

Federated Investors, the third-largest U.S. manager of money-market funds, announced that it expects to continue waiving some fees for the rest of the year because of low interest...

Chris Van Aeken will head International Wealth Management Products and Services at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, the company announced.

Inspira, a Pittsburgh‐based provider of turnkey private‐labeled IRA solutions, is joining forces with daily valuation recordkeeping firm RiversEdge Advanced Retirement Solutions.

Charles Schwab has become a “preferred retail dealer” for J.P. Morgan, the firms announced.

Wells Fargo & Co.’s Wealth Brokerage and Retirement Group saw increasing revenues driven by growth in asset-based fees and brokerage transactions, the firm said.