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Vanguard projects lower 10-year equity market returns that will affect participants’ retirement savings, and recommends a participant default rate to reach sufficient retirement income replacement rates.   

Don’t call it a comeback: Plan sponsors could thaw frozen defined benefit plans to return them as a retirement benefit for workers.   

Stable value funds topped inflows, while most outflows were from target-date funds, according to Alight Solutions data.

The agency has so far approved $7.4 billion under the Special Financial Assistance Program to pension funds covering more than 149,000 participants.

August 4 letter to CEO Larry Fink seeks ‘clarification on actions that appear to have been motivated by interests other than maximizing financial return.’

The free event will increase awareness about the fiduciary responsibilities of operating a retirement plan.

Funded ratio for the 100 largest U.S. public funds fell to 74.0%

Millennials lead Generation X and Baby Boomers in believing that they won’t receive any benefits from Social Security upon retirement. 

Online savings tools are gaining popularity with retirement plan participants as journey-based website designs and AI-enabled chatbots gain wider acceptance.

Governor moves to bar the State Board of Administration from adopting ESG-investing tenets.

Empower bolsters its brand with legacy name alignment; Pentegra combines with new Pinnacle Consulting Group; Strategic Investment Group adds to client portfolio management team; and more.

The IRS is extending deadlines for amending plans for certain provisions of the SECURE Act and other legislation.

A new series of papers aims to provide plan sponsors a framework for supporting near retirees and retirees in preparing for retirement.

Many adults report their overall confidence to meet their financial goals is down as inflation remains high and the cost of goods continues to rise.

The lawsuit claims that chasing low fees is currently “in vogue” and that fiduciaries gave no consideration to the funds’ ability to generate returns.

One fiduciary insurance executive says a spate of new ERISA lawsuits ‘demonstrates that no fiduciary is safe, since one can apparently be sued just because they trailed the...

The partnership seeks to provide support for small business with their employer-sponsored retirement programs.

The pension fund had been under investigation for more than a year over an accounting error in 2020.

Concern about underperformance of plan investment options hits 57% in 2022, up by 6 percentage points since 2021, according to a report.