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Like any challenging labor in life or business, running a target-date fund portfolio successfully requires careful attention and a keen sense of balance.

The guidance includes prohibited changes to a safe harbor retirement plan.

Comments are due to the FASB by April 26.

The proposed rule will help closed DB plans continue to satisfy minimum coverage and other testing requirements.

S&P Dow Jones Indices adds retirement income indexes; Northern Trust Asset Management reveals its next generation of target-date funds; and Beaumont Capital reveals a defensive TDF alternative.

One retirement plan industry professional warned legislators that improvements in retirement readiness tied to the Pension Protection Act have mostly run their course.

Following the Federal Reserve’s decision this week to hold off at least a little longer on its next rate hike, one Prudential fixed-income leader anticipates a volatile but...

“We recommend that plan sponsors consider these investment ‘ideas’ in the context of their overall plan objectives and constrains and under the advice of their investment consultant or...

Industry consolidations and acquisitions aren’t likely to slow in 2016, experts note, and the announced acquisition of AIG Advisor Group by a private equity firm only strengthens the...

Experts suggest many long-term investors have absorbed central lessons about volatility and trading—especially among more sophisticated segments of the investing population. 

Market volatility, longevity and PBGC premiums are prompting sponsors to take a harder look at funding levels.

Russell Investments, Pavilion Advisory, Guardian and others make new hires.

Putnam reveals ‘Maneuver in Markets’ program for advisers; Vanguard reopens money market fund ahead of SEC changes; Wells Fargo offers enhanced pension metrics reporting.

The Pension Protection Act ranked as a top influence on defined contribution plan management in a recent survey.

DOL proposal on state-run retirement programs promotes confusing patchwork of laws and a few unintended consequences, say industry groups ICI and SIFMA.

Great-West, now doing business as Empower Retirement, is facing similar accusations to those leveled against Prudential at the end of last year.

They haven’t received quite the same number of comments as the DOL’s pending fiduciary regulations, but proposed liquidity rules from the SEC have clearly grabbed the investment and...

The ARA and Voya Financial call on the DOL to offer similar relief to private-sector retirement plans as it proposes for state-run plans for private-sector employees.

The Supreme Court has denied a petition to review a case about restriction-of-venue clauses in retirement plan documents related to ERISA challenges—based not on the weakness of appellees’...