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Aon has accumulated $1billion in plan assets and commitments since it launched the pooled employer plan.  

Attorneys for the defendants have asked a federal district court to dismiss ERISA fiduciary breach claims.

Corporate pension funding ratio improves to best rate of the year in September despite 2022’s worst month of market losses

Traders favored equities in the beginning of the third quarter as Wall Street posted gaining, but they preferred fixed-income funds in the quarter’s second half as stocks slid.

The survey demonstrated the degree to which black and Hispanic retirees tend to have less saved for retirement than white retirees, as well as those who are unmarried...

A new WTW survey shows that half of employers are concerned about the increasing costs of providing group health plan coverage for retirees 

The energy company was sued by two former employees for keeping poorly performing options on its retirement fund menu.

The updated guidance waives the excise tax for those who failed to take a required minimum distribution in 2021 and 2022.

Millennials would cash out their retirement plan assets in a market downturn, research shows.

After a year of partial payouts to pension participants, a local Sheet Metal Workers pension plan will receive $29 million in assistance from the PBGC.

The Mental Health Matters Act moves to the Senate after House passage, and would eliminate forced arbitration clauses, class action waivers, discretionary clauses, and representation waivers in ERISA-governed...

Lockton launches new people solutions practice; Groom Law Group expands health practice with new principal; Multnomah Group acquires Pacific Retirement Partners; and more.

The plaintiffs have alleged Mutual of America plan fiduciaries using a closed-architecture recordkeeping platform caused plan participants to pay excessive fees for recordkeeping and administrative services.  

A panel hosted by the National Institute on Retirement Security explained that all pension plans are at increased risk, especially plans for public employees, and discussed ways that...

The plaintiffs’ fiduciary breach claims were dismissed, with prejudice, in United States District Court for the Eastern district of Wisconsin

The Portability Services Network seeks help mitigate cash-out leakage and accelerate the nationwide adoption of auto-portability.

New research from the Pension Research Council shows job rates, marriage and home ownership down for early millennials.

Despite growth for total HSA assets reaching nearly $100 billon, invested assets are still stubbornly sluggish. 

Vernon and Shirley Hill will pay more than $2 million after claims the couple invested as much as 70% of a profit-sharing plan’s assets in the stock of...

The Retirement Savings Modernization Act would explicitly state that 401(k) plans can include investments in all asset classes, though this is not currently banned under existing law.