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Health benefits and education from employers can help prepare employees for the future.

Lawmakers and states are making efforts to address the perceptions that some businesses are too small to offer a plan and that 401(k)s are too costly to administer.

The agency is still considering whether to make permanent relief from the requirement for certain elections to be witnessed in person by a plan representative or notary public.

Clear goals help to maximize the impact of retirement plan participant education and communication.

Data on decumulation patterns can be useful to public-sector DC plan sponsors who want to help employees with retirement planning.

Fidelity champions health savings accounts paired with a high-deductible health plan as a means of meeting workers’ rising health care costs in retirement. 

Smart hires group sustainability director, while SageView adds government and public sector retirement plan expert.

Nearly half of all workers say their current level of debt hinders their ability to save for retirement.

Transamerica is the latest retirement plan services provider to add emergency savings accounts to its stable of solutions, highlighting the increasingly apparent need to balance short-term and long-term...

While state pensions reached their highest funded status in six years, market volatility and declining markets signal potential difficulty ahead.

The plaintiffs alleged John Hancock breached the Employee Retirement Income Security Act fiduciary duty of loyalty by receiving and retaining foreign tax credits generated by certain international investment...

Dimensional lists new ETF and completes mutual-fund-to-ETF conversion; Northern Trust partners with Enfusion as part of whole office strategy; Nuveen introduces retirement investing group; and more.

Employee-owners at S corporations can accrue benefits leading to superior retirement readiness.  

The national auto parts distributor faces allegations that it failed to prudently and loyally operate its defined contribution retirement plan.

While overall investment returns were lower, rising discount rates led to overall lower liabilities

A panel of experts convened by EBRI discussed what factors are driving the ‘Great Resignation and Retirement,’ and what the future may hold for the U.S. labor force.

The appellate court has sided with a lower court’s determination that individual arbitration agreements signed by plaintiffs should not prevent claims made on behalf of the plan as...

More rigorous approaches may be needed for corporate pension plan sponsors to curtail profligate payments.