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Pension Funds, Asset Managers Create Principals for Firearms Manufacturers
The five principles serve as a conversation starter for investors to use when engaging companies to be active participants in protecting and enhancing long-term portfolio values by ensuring...
Investment Product and Service Launches
Archer and Wilshire Analytics Partner to Add Analysis; E*Trade Platform Expands Available ETFs; Vanguard Increases Active Fixed Income Offerings; and more.
ERISA Litigation, Regulation Landscape Set for 2019
Speaking to a room of plan sponsors and specialist consultants in Boston, two ERISA litigation experts offered a detailed review of recent action in big-ticket lawsuits impacting employer...
What Would Encourage More ERISA Plans to Use ESG Investments?
When considering ESG investing, retirement plan sponsors are still concerned about performance and transparency, and some are confused by the latest DOL guidance.
Retirement Industry People Moves
Beacon Pointe Advisors names CIO; Asset-Map partners with Cambridge Investment Research; VALIC appoints new business development vice president; and more.
AARP Tackles Social Security Misinformation
As retirees drawing Social Security income look forward to a modest increase in benefits scheduled for 2019, AARP has published a list of common Social Security misconceptions.
Would Government Bailouts Help Solve Union Pension Funding Crisis?
A white paper published by a group of researchers and actuaries examines the pros and cons of creating a government-back low-interest loan program to support stressed multiemployer pensions.
DOL Asks for Input on Retirement Plan Auto-Portability
The request comes in a notice of proposed exemption from prohibited transactions for Retirement Clearinghouse's auto-portability solution.
SEC Publishes Favorable CRS Form User Testing Results
SEC worked with RAND Corporation to test the efficacy of its mock Customer Relationship Summary form, a key part of the broader Regulation Best Interest proposal; the positive...
Consistent Retirement Savings and Investing Leads to Higher Balances
EBRI and ICI point out that 401(k) account balance growth reflects contributions of employers and workers, in addition to investment returns, and varies with participants’ asset allocation, withdrawals...
Key Parts of AT&T ERISA Lawsuit Dismissal Motion Fail
Another district court ruling in the matter of Alas vs. AT&T sides in part with the plaintiffs and in part with the defendants, making yet another amended complaint...
Fund Manager Comments to SEC Bemoan ‘Flawed’ Disclosure Framework
“Because funds bear the cost of shareholder report delivery, intermediaries have little incentive to negotiate lower delivery rates with the fulfillment vendor or otherwise control costs,” the Investment...
Retirement Industry People Moves
Stonebridge joins the hybrid solutions platform of Triad Advisors; SEI partners with higher education governance organization; client engagement expert joins Transamerica; and more.
Institutional Investors Intensify Embrace of ESG Investing
Continuing a trend that began in 2012, ESG criteria related to climate change and carbon emissions remained the most important environmental issue for institutions surveyed by U.S. SIF.
A Retirement Plan’s Default Investment Is Not for Every Employee
The retirement plan sponsor’s choice of a default investment should not reflect the full distribution of employee investor types, but rather those who would select it, a research...
Retirement Industry People Moves
ESOP and ERISA Litigators Join McDermott Willl & Emery as Partners; IRI Names New President and CEO; Callan Adds Team Member to Capital Markets Group; and more.
Investment Product and Service Launches
Fiduciary Tool Added to Broadridge Analytic Solution; SS&C Technologies Adds ERS Managed Account Solution to Recordkeeping Platform; BlackRock Launches Multiple ESG Funds and Tools; and more.
Fidelity Offers Personalized Financial Wellness
The solution uses new digital technology to help employees assess their individual financial wellness needs.
Closer Examination of DOL MEP Proposal
Those industry stakeholders disappointed by the limited scope of the proposed regulations can take heart in the fact that DOL staff calls for detailed commentary on ways the...
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Retirement Benefits for the Fastest-Growing Segment of the U.S. Economy
Advisers angling for new business might rethink their need to hook a whale.
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