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It gets participants' portfolios on track and presents an opportunity to select lower-cost funds.

Empower Retirement has realigned and renamed its FASCore recordkeeping business to enhance retirement plan services for institutional clients. 

Pension consulting expert warns PBGC premiums have reached an unsustainable level for many plan sponsors. 

Wells Fargo offers non-affiliated manager strategies for CITs, with no asset minimums.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System was asked by two retired police officers to include hiring discrimination settlement dollars in defined benefit pension calculations.

Rather than considering contributions, cross-testing focuses on benefits.

This week Northern Trust announced enhancements to services for private equity investment clients, while Franklin Templeton expanded multi-asset solutions capability with new open architecture offering. 

Retirement plan clients of T. Rowe Price using the firm’s Retire With Confidence program can now access Dave Ramsey’s SmartDollar financial wellness solution. 

The Pension Resource Institute is making its RetirementAdvantage program available to registered investment advisers that work with TD Ameritrade Institutional.

New tool from Jackson and Morningstar offers advisers the ability to create client-specific tax illustrations in real time. 

The financial firm will pay benefits for retirees of Chemtura Corporation.

In partnership with Pershing LLC, “we are now allowing partners to deliver advice not only across DC plans but to retail investors,” says Rob Foregger, co-founder of NextCapital.

A Pennsylvania TPA, the Paragon Alliance Group, has rolled out a website with enhancements to make its website more mobile-friendly.

A substantial rebranding and website redesign underscore the transformation to TIAA, with its simpler, more customer-centric vision.

OneAmerica has made available to plan sponsor clients Worksite Financial Solutions’ Employee Transition and Engagement Solutions.

National retirement plan advisory firm Cafaro Greenleaf has announced a new strategic partnership with InHub, which specializes in digitizing and streamlining the vendor search and RFP process.

Guardian Insurance and Annuity Company is partnering with Brinker Capital Destinations to deliver a new CIT-based qualified default investment alternative to retirement plan clients.

The new "Grow Your Savings" calculator shows the effect of increasing contributions to retirement plans and compound interest on savings.

Top advisers understand the importance of “the experience revolution” that has reshaped the way people shop for all types of goods and services—even defined contribution retirement plans. 

Living firsthand through some seriously tough times for defined benefit plans, many pension plan sponsors are turning to advisers and consultants for help.