Happy Friday, readers! This weekend’s mailing is centered on the timely topic of emergency savings and holistic financial wellness. Skilled retirement plan advisers know that long-term financial success begins with short-term economic stability. Armed with such knowledge, some advisers and their plan sponsor clients are pushing into the areas of emergency savings accounts, debt counseling, tax-advantaged health care savings and more. Collected below is a series of informative articles on these topics. We hope you will share some of what you read with a client or colleague.

A subsidiary of TIAA will settle conflict of interest charges related to the provision of rollover advice to employer-sponsored retirement plan participants; the development offers up some important considerations for financial services professionals.

Empower will acquire Prudential’s DC, DB, non-qualified and rollover IRA business, in addition to its stable value and separate account investment products and platforms.

The CEO of the nation’s No. 2 recordkeeper says Empower’s focus will continue to be on a best-in-class user experience.

Over the past decade, the universe of retirement plan recordkeepers has contracted from about 400 to approximately 150, with no signs of slowing. Experts say one lesson learned in this time is that not all scale is created equal.

It can cull data for advisers, banks, credit unions, insurance firms and other institutions to give an overview of a person’s defined contribution plan holdings.