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At the heart of the complaint were guaranteed investment contracts, a type of group annuity contract sold to retirement plans, issued by Principal to ERISA-covered retirement plan participants.

PCS Announces Series of Promotions and Hires; CUNA Mutual Grows Sales Force with Addition of Regional VP; USI Selects Retirement Services VP; and more.

John Hancock Retirement Plan Services is offering a guarantee to reimburse eligible participants for unauthorized transfers from their 401(k) retirement accounts.

Mostly party-line House action this week included passage of the Family Savings Act, which features key provisions drawn directly from the popular Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act.

They are worried about longevity risk.

Their use of an adviser acting as a plan fiduciary has increased by 40% in the past four years, according to the Plan Sponsor Council of America.

A Charles Schwab SDBA report says the group allocated to ETFs and saved cash at a higher rate than other generations.

The amendment is a fiduciary rule safe harbor for the selection of a lifetime income provider for retirement plans.

The changes streamline the investment, administrative, operational and communication processes for 403(b) participants, plan sponsors and advisers, says IPX.

Thirty-one percent of LGBTQ respondents to a MassMutual survey acknowledge that they may be taking more risk than they should compared to 22% of other retirees and pre-retirees.

Lockwood Adds Expansive Model Portfolios to Managed Account Platform; Capital Group Adopts PFaroe; PGIM Lengthens ETF Space with Second Actively Managed Fund; and more.

The DOL wants to ensure that retirement plan advisers are delivering on all services listed in their contracts with retirement plan sponsors.

Sixty-one percent of all participants surveyed by J.P. Morgan agreed with the statement, “If I could push an ‘easy’ button for retirement and completely hand over my retirement...

Ten years after the Great Recession, there continues to be a great focus on the best way to handle capital preservation on the DC retirement plan menu.

It has become more common for plans with upwards of $20 million in assets to go through a formal RFP process to find a new adviser, but it...

The firm argues clean share classes can stick to their channels with greater free transparency and lower cost.

Although ESG ratings can be useful when used properly, they should not be the sole metric used to make investment decisions. A report gives examples.

Investment Metrics finds most plans have rebalanced their portfolios towards the lower end of their target allocation to U.S. equity, or, they have shifted to global equity instead,...

A report from Healthy Capital suggests a combination of managing health conditions and purchasing staggered annuities can help fund health care expenses in retirement, but concedes that the...