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The Retirement Plan Modernization Act would raise the automatic IRA rollover limit, based on the rate of inflation, from $5,000 to $7,600 and allow for future increases to...

Morningstar says the U.S. can learn from the UK.

No lever alone is enough to close the pension funding gap, according to a report from Cambridge Associates.

Although credit card debt is keeping half of surveyed Gen Xers from starting to save for retirement, 63% say “everything will just work out” in their retirement years.

The idea is relatively simple: workers who do not yet have emergency savings will be directed to first fund a short-term savings account reserved for emergencies, before funding...

Some are building proprietary investment models.

However, a survey found 53% of employees would like their employers to offer tools to help them improve their financial situation.

But 40% say the Great Recession has had no impact on their lives whatsoever.

The app is a mobile version of MassMutual’s RetireSMART Ready tool, which provides a snapshot of a saver’s retirement readiness at a specific age.

More than one in three retirees actually see their assets grow, BlackRock and EBRI found.

Before certifying a class in the litigation, a federal judge determined that the named plaintiffs need not have invested in all funds challenged in the suit in order...

However, research finds workers with a lower socioeconomic status have a harder time staying in the workforce.

A recent appellate court decision underscores the important differences in anti-cutback vesting requirements that exist between “top-hat” plans and retirement benefits for lower-compensated employees.

The Internal Revenue Service uses the Social Security Administration’s taxable maximum to determine the taxable wage base for permitted disparity in defined contribution (DC) plan contributions.

“TPAs play a vital role in the management of their clients’ retirement plans, and we want to make certain that they have the tools that they need to...

The new delay is for 18 months.

The fund would be used to make loans to multiemployer defined benefit (DB) plans that are in critical or declining status or that are insolvent but not terminated.

EY says the move from active to passive investing is one of them.

Nikki Newton is appointed president of Ivy Distributors Inc.; John Hancock Retirement Plan Services forms a new leadership team charged with enhancing the delivery of large customized retirement...