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The legislation is a first step to allowing the lower-cost investments' use in nonprofits and school retirement plans.

Opportunities may arise for plan sponsors to take advantage of excess pension assets, but taxes must be considered. 

Program would start in July 2025 and help address the gender savings gap in the country’s retirement system.

T. Rowe Price launches Social Security optimizer; IRI updates its retirement saving and income handbook; Just Futures launches ‘values-driven’ 401(k)s and 403(b)s; and more.

The telecom giant announced the transfer of $5.9 billion in pensions to Prudential and RGA; payments from the insurers to beneficiaries start July 1.

Michigan-based Dawn Foods Inc. changed its contribution matching formula to increase the total and reduce participants’ confusion.

Young 401(k) participants were the most likely to share personal information to help tailor their retirement investments to their needs and goals, according to new Cerulli data.

Due to lower levels of participation and contributions, conservative investing and retirement plan leakage, employees at historically Black colleges and universities struggle with lower balances, according to TIAA.

The council, consisting of 15 members, advises the Department of Labor on ERISA-related issues.

The Sheltering Arms organization shut down in 2023, and the PBGC seeks to become its defined benefit plan’s statutory trustee.

Because target-date funds represent a large and growing share of plan assets, plan sponsors are narrowing their core investment menus, according to NEPC data.

Qualified recipients will be able to collect up to $1,000 in federal matching retirement plan contributions, starting in 2027.

Because equity funds tend to dominate core investment menus, PGIM argues in a new paper that there is a need for more fixed-income and conservative funds.

Hub makes Scott head of employee benefits for national market; Hatchett-Bodle joins Hall Benefits Law; The Standard Names Maixner national accounts sales director for retirement plans; and more.

NEPC will manage the outsourced assets, as Kodak considers how to 'maximize the value of the over-funding.'

Advertised as a more cost-efficient and less burdensome way for small employers to offer a retirement plan, pooled solutions may not be the perfect solution to the coverage...

Representatives from two different companies explain the process by which their firms chose their respective multiple employer retirement solutions.

What do the data say about the role MEPs and PEPs can play in getting more people access to employer-provided retirement accounts?

CIO Greg Davis takes on president's title as search to replace the longtime leader begins.

New research reveals employers are often out of touch with the needs of their employees, who seek higher compensation, better work-life balance and quality benefits.