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The firms partnered on a retirement investment that includes a guaranteed income annuity.

Subject to court approval, the retirement plan services and investments provider will pay participants in a class action case who alleged it charged excessive fees.  

COLA boosts to pension distributions have been proposed in Pennsylvania and Texas, while they have already been announced in Maryland and Rhode Island.

Real estate allocations can strengthen participant outcomes and reduce volatility, according to the Defined Contribution Real Estate Council.  

Plan sponsors may bolster retirement plan engagement and contributions with SECURE 2.0 enhancements, a Natixis survey shows.

Employees are now more than twice as likely to describe their personal finances as fair or poor, as they are to call them good or excellent, John Hancock...

Despite incurring a 10% penalty for cashing out retirement savings early, research found that many employees liquidate 401(k) accounts when leaving or switching jobs. 

The Department of Labor alleges an environmental consultant abandoned responsibility for its profit-sharing retirement plan in the late 1990s.  

Rugel joins MassMutual as head of operations; BNP Paribas promotes José Placido to CEO and Jean-Yves Fillion to vice chairman; and more.

Because of rising health care costs and the predicted insolvency of Social Security, experts tout HSAs as a powerful tool to save up for health care expenses.  

New state-facilitated initiatives may boost private sector plans, not crowd them out, a Pew analysis of federal data shows.

Research shows that assets in health savings accounts continue to rise, growing to reach a landmark threshold last year.

Most plan sponsors hope their retirement income solutions provide a paycheck-like experience to participants, T. Rowe Price research found.  

Nestimate announces in-plan retirement income analytics tool for advisers; Savvy Wealth launches direct indexing investment product; Broadridge, Paychex partner on small 401(k) retirement plan solution; and more.

SECURE 2.0 brings opportunity, but also implementation, tracking and administrative questions, according to experts speaking on a PLANSPONSOR webinar.

There is an opportunity for asset managers to focus their distribution of retirement income products, as interest in keeping retired participants in plan grows, new Cerulli Associates data...

Millennial and older workers expect it will take greater than $1 million saved in a workplace retirement plan to retire comfortably.

The retirement plan for Tenneco Inc. employees is alleged to have committed two breaches of fiduciary duty.  

According to most analysts, the fall in discount rates raised liabilities by more than the growth in equities, leading to deterioration of funded status in March.

Extreme and age-inappropriate allocations by workers to equities, of either 100% or nothing, have been solved by the Pension Protection Act of 2006 and TDFs, according to Vanguard...