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Alongside the use of automatic enrollment, the biggest development in QDIAs in the past 10 years has been the replacement of stable value or money market funds as...

While industry practitioners often have deeply held convictions about how to improve the U.S. retirement system, there are already many things plan advisers can do under current legislation...

Advisers are working with more plans today than they ever have—completing more services for more diverse types of clients than was the case prior to the full implementation...

As the DOL’s new fiduciary rule approaches implementation, Morningstar is set to launch a 401(k) platform to help advisers minimize liability.

TIAA Announces Super Regional Mall Fund; Northern Trust Launches Exclusive Partnership with Software Firm; and Wilshire Launches Crisis Index.

A strategic partnership between Efficient Advisors and Gladstone Analytics will help financial planning businesses asses their client base and plan for their own future.  

Embracing a greater role in managing household finances and generating family income, Cerulli Associates research suggests women working in the U.S. are eager for financial advice. 

“It is almost akin to buying fiduciary insurance,” says Tod Ruble with Custodia Financial. “Plan sponsors are maintaining fiduciary obligations and improving outcomes for participants.”

Spark 401k also provides access to low-cost ETFs that keep investment expenses less than 1%, helping employees further grow their nest egg.

The integration pairs a “fully customizable robo-adviser and account opening platform” with an “industry-leading CRM,” according to the firms. 

Advisers can help small employers minimize investment fiduciary risk through LPL's 3(38) Small Market Solution service.

EverythingBenefits has released a new platform that automates key aspects of 401(k) administration, including payroll-data management.

For a significant number of benefit plan sponsors and participants, the successful effort to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act is still having an impact.

Envestnet Retirement Solutions and HealthSavings Administrators LLC are rolling out a new solution to help advisers and their clients better utilize HSAs. 

Food for thought: If a person who is 15 years old were to start saving $50 a week and stay the course through age 65, they would very...

Society of Actuaries releases new research about economic scenario generators; and Nuveen announces online alternative investments platform.

 

Fewer than half (44%) of participants surveyed by Charles Schwab are confident making 401(k) decisions on their own, but 74% said they would be confident making 401(k) decisions...

Robo-advisers are growing by providing user-friendly, responsive and automated services to well-defined groups of investors. 

SSGA contends there are things retirement plan sponsors can do to help participants prepare for retirement before their mental capacity begins to wear away.

The Women in Pensions Network has launched a new website to better serve its growing community of close to 2,000 pension professionals nationwide.