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The 50 largest Northern Trust Asset Management plan sponsors are using auto-escalation to boost savings, but they are not focused on retirement income or decumulation options for plan...

Answering participants’ sustainable investing questions starts with a framework for helping individuals understand environmental, social and governance investing, a benefits consultant suggests.    

Pandemic-related retirement patterns differed from those seen in previous economic contractions.   

Fixed annuity products propelled growth for the period.

Lincoln Financial Group names workplace solutions head; T. Rowe Price adds two senior executives to its institutional DC business; new attorney joins The Wagner Law Group; and more.

Among large employers that responded to a Mercer survey, 11% offer free employee-only coverage in at least one medical plan option and another 11% are considering it.

The short appellate ruling notes that new precedents have overtaken some of the debates in the case.

The new version provides real-time updates to present a bigger picture of a participant’s overall financial health.

The ongoing plan must still separate special financial assistance funds and invest them according to final regulations.

UBS launches U.S. version of Climate Aware Equity Index, and Vanguard makes Global Positive Impact Stock Fund available.

The complaint alleges that an imprudent fiduciary process resulted in the selection and maintenance of several funds in the plan that ‘wasted assets because of unnecessary costs.’

State and local governments’ workforce challenges have been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Great Resignation, a survey shows.

According to an SEC announcement, Equitable gave investors the false impression that their quarterly account statements listed all fees paid during the period.

Nearly three-quarters of employees with an employer-sponsored DC plan rely on it as their primary retirement savings vehicle.

The defendants contest their process ensures that any fees paid by participants are reasonable and all services and investment offerings are in the best interests of the participants.

Solvency issues tend to be much less of a concern for people already living in retirement than they are for people who are on the cusp of retirement...

Gen Z women surpass the men in accumulated retirement savings with higher account balances on average, says a new report.

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh has alleged several ERISA breaches.