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The tool also calculates its own financial wellness score for participants and employers. 

Whether by video or written text, researchers found a short story significantly improved test scores about annuities and Social Security claiming.

“They are hiring advisers to understand how well their plan is functioning and how to improve it,” Jordan Burgess, with Fidelity Institutional Asset Management, tells PLANADVISER.

A district court granted summary judgment to OSF Healthcare System, but the 7th Circuit found there are genuine issues of material law that warrant more discovery in the...

The lawsuit accuses the retirement plan committee of CHS/Community Health Systems, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan and Principal defendants of imprudent management of the plan and its investments.

This should be a focus when looking at target-date funds (TDFs) often used as the default investment in employer-sponsored defined contribution (DC) plans.

Specifically, they should offer intuitive plan health dashboards, the research company says.

They impact participation, contributions and asset allocation, according to a research paper supported by a grant from the Social Security Administration.

The IRS still anticipates issuing final regulations on closed DB plan nondiscrimination rules.

Claims for non-ERISA NQDC plans may be brought under state-contract law, but a federal appeals court found Safelite's plan was an ERISA plan, so state-law claims were preempted.

BPAS names employees to sales roles; Texan Wealth Management firm joins CAPTRUST; Voya Retirement announces regional VP hires; and more.

Considering automatically rolling balances from one plan to another for participants who terminate employment with small balances plan sponsors are allowed to cashout, EBRI found additional accumulations over...

It is an open architecture platform where advisers can bring together all of their data and tools to manage client and prospect workflows.

Among other things, a federal judge found Transamerica Asset Management’s substitution of its sub-advisers is not a concrete, obvious explanation for the poor performance of the challenged funds.

Ascensus partners with NextCapital for investment and fiduciary solutions, and Axioma releases Canadian risk model to suite of funds. 

The Investment Adviser Association says the SEC’s proxy voting guidance will increase costs for advisers and also increase barriers to entry for proxy advisory firms.  

It is a fully bundled 401(k) plan offering that incorporates a broad selection of investment products, as well as 3(38) fiduciary oversight.

While they have grown at a compound annual growth rate of 7.25% a year in the past five years, if advisers were better educated about them and if...

The proposed rule, which the OMB has up to 60 days to review is aimed at reducing costs and improving participant understanding of retirement plan disclosures.