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AIM Launches Adviser Education Module on Social Security
AIM Investments has rolled out an educational module for financial advisers to help them navigate clients through various scenarios involving Social Security’s role in retirement planning.
Survey Shows Racial Divides in Investing and Saving
Even when all other significant demographic factors were held constant - things such as age, income, gender, and education – Whites were nearly twice as likely as African-Americans...
IMHO: Why Knots
We spend a fair amount of time worrying about the relatively small percentage of workers who choose not to participate—at all, fully, or effectively—in their workplace savings plan.
FINRA Webcast Offers Insights on Working with Seniors
In the midst of a growing concern about the vulnerability of senior citizens, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has announced the availability of a free, instructional webcast...
Reform Needed to Address Lower Retirement Income for Women
There are disparities between retirement income for women and men and women generally have less retirement income than men, largely because of women's lower labor force attachment and...
What If? GAO Simulates Changes to Social Security and Retirement Plan Laws
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report detailing the impact of specific changes to Social Security and retirement benefit laws could have in helping to narrow...
New Guidance Issued For Timing of Some Individual Account Benefit Statements
The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has issued new guidance of the timing of participant benefit statements for plans in which participants cannot direct their...
ETF Assets Grow by $49 Billion in September
As of September 28, 2007, 560 exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the U.S., managed by 17 ETF managers, had assets totaling approximately $554 billion, according to State Street’s ETF...
DoL Offers Online Tool to Calculate DFVCP Penalties
The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has released an interactive calculator to help employers and plan administrators who faltered on annual reporting requirements accurately...
Deschenes is MassMutual’s New CMO for Retirement Income Unit
MassMutual Financial Group announced that Stephen Deschenes has been hired as senior vice president and chief marketing officer (CMO) for MassMutual’s Retirement Income Group.
Lord Abbett Expands Share Class Offerings
Investment management firm Lord, Abbett&Co. LLC has introduced three new mutual fund share classes and renamed another to better serve the institutional and adviser marketplaces.
Past Tense?
We frequently tell investors that the past is not a reliable portent of future performance – but it does have a bearing on how we worry.
Keller Rohrback Announces ERISA Investigation Concerning SSgA Bond Funds
The Keller Rohrback L.L.P. law firm has is investigating State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) and State Street Bank&Trust Company for potential violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security...
DoL Releases Advance Copies of Revised Form 5500
Advanced copies of the 2007 Form 5500 Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plans and related instructions were released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL), the Internal...
IRS Issues Guidance on Yield Curve to be Used for PPA Funding Rules
The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Tuesday issued a notice providing guidance on the corporate bond yield curve and associated segment rates to be...
The Principal Adds to Fiduciary Compliance Tools
The Principal has added a new resource to its fiduciary package that advisers and third party administrators (TPAs) can use with plan sponsor clients to effectively manage fiduciary...
Phoenix and Jefferson National to Target Fee-Based Advisers
The Phoenix Companies, Inc., and Jefferson National Life Insurance Company have formed a strategic alliance to target the rapidly growing segment of fee-based advisers in wirehouses, regional broker-dealers,...
Senator Clinton Proposes Government Help for Retirement Savings
On Tuesday, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) proposed legislation that would ensure a dollar-for-dollar government match on the first $1,000 in employee 401(k) contributions and would offer...
EBSA Unveils Fiduciary Education Web Site
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) on Tuesday unwrapped a new Web site designed to help employers better comply with federal employee benefit laws...
SSgA Launches International Treasury Bond ETF
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, announced that the SPDR Lehman International Treasury Bond ETF (Ticker: BWX) began trading on the...