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Industry insiders are divided on whether this is a good idea.

States offering retirement planning solutions to private-sector workers got their first look at a few highly anticipated (and increasingly controversial) pieces of regulatory guidance this week. 

Gen Xers pinballing between unrealistic retirement expectations and paralyzing uncertainty need an adviser who is understanding and empathetic.

The Internal Revenue Service is implementing new market rate of return rules for hybrid pension plans. 

Lower account balances, longer life expectancy and not working with an adviser can wreak havoc on a woman’s Social Security benefit. 

Schwab Advisor Services finds a majority of independent registered investment advisers are projecting healthy growth in the year ahead. 

BPV Capital Management partners with AJO and SEI to launch large cap value CIT; Prudential Investment Management announces name change.

The group suggests other efforts to address the retirement savings crisis in America.

BP has won dismissal of several claims that it failed to monitor fiduciaries who oversaw company stock investments in its retirement plans.

Transamerica Retirement Solutions has launched a new 401(k) retirement plan that “offers large-plan features to smaller businesses and their employees.”

Industry researchers now commonly argue digital portfolio management tools and robo-adviser platforms are driving greater opportunity for traditional advice firms. 

Not convinced that robo-advisers are shaking up the defined contribution retirement plan advisory space? This week’s news that digital-advice darling Financial Engines will acquire a firmly established traditional...

PLANADVISER reached out to Marcia Wagner, principle with Wagner Law Group in Boston, for comments about the case.

Dimensional Fund Advisors launches TDF solution; Morningstar acquires Total Rebalance Expert; Morgan Stanley adds CreditSights to online adviser portal; and AB reveals holistic annuity fiduciary service. 

A New York Congresswoman's bill would require more disclosure about hedge fund holdings.

The retirement planning industry already knew Boeing would settle the nearly decade-old 401(k) litigation, but a trove of new details emerged this week as both parties agreed to...

The lawsuit also hints that certain “best practices,” in part, resulted in many participants being improperly invested.

Kiplinger’s tax map shows the importance of location, location, location for retirees.

There is a concept in biology called punctuated equilibrium, in which long periods of stability are interrupted, rapidly and unpredictably, by meaningful change. It’s an apt metaphor for...

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 includes some good news about funding calculations and mortality tables, but there is some bad news in it too.