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Broadridge enhances fiduciary toolkit for advisers; GoalPath makes managed accounts available on iJoin; BlackRock announces option to include annuities in target-date strategies; and more.

Fidelity reports it has seen unprecedented growth in women opening new retail investing accounts, plus a record-high average of 9.2% contributions to DC retirement plans.

A judge determined the firm didn’t breach its ERISA fiduciary duties when it encouraged Lowe’s to move more than a billion dollars in plan assets to one of...

The objective of the new pooled employer plan  will be to create as close to a complete environmental, social and governance investment lineup as possible.

Agency leaders say the principal idea of the new proposal is that climate change and other ESG factors can be financially material and, when they are, considering them...

A new lawsuit suggests the individual advisory program TIAA clients were rolled into was significantly more expensive and generated hundreds of millions of dollars in fees for TIAA—without...

The important federal benefit increases when the cost of living rises, as measured by the Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers,...

Individual and institutional investors were feeling better about market risks before getting a Delta-driven reality check.

Employees surveyed say these benefits contribute a lot to their feeling of financial security, but 83% are at least somewhat interested in help with accumulating emergency savings.

A new survey shows experience clearly counts when it comes to how comfortable advisers are selling annuity products in an evolving regulatory and economic landscape.

Register now for the October edition of the 2021 Practice Progress webinar series, where we will be looking back over 15 years of adviser industry research, asking how...

As they head into 2022, DCIO sales and marketing units report appreciating stock prices and improved net sells that they expect to continue.

Echelon’s latest merger and acquisition research finds U.S. private equity firms and strategic acquirers are pivoting their attention overseas as the competition for assets and talent heats up.

Several factors will likely drive more mid-market and large plan sponsors to initiate pension risk transfer (PRT) transactions, surveys show.

Though they spent more on marketing overall this year, financial advisers have questions about the return on marketing spend.

Impax appoints Ed Farrington as head of distribution for North America; Prudential forms new Prudential Retirement Strategies business; Northern Trust appoints Gary Paulin as head of global strategic...

Victory Capital expands VictoryShares ETF offerings; RetireOne and Midland National launch portfolio retirement income guarantee solution; Transamerica broadens availability of stable value option; and more.

The ruling states that the court does not believe hearing oral arguments would be helpful in resolving the parties’ cross motions, and it concludes the facts as pled...

In 15 out of the 18 categories of domestic equity funds considered, S&P Dow Jones Indices finds the majority of actively managed funds underperformed their benchmarks during the...

One commentator who works in the employee stock ownership plan space says the ruling represents “one of the most comprehensive rebukes of DOL arguments” in such a valuation...