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“People are living longer than at any other time in history,” observes Catherine Collinson of Transamerica. “It’s hardly surprising that many workers envision working past age 65 and...

As part of its expansion efforts, Ascensus has named a new president and pledged to continue its rapid pace of acquisitions.

Best-in-class plan design in addition to financial wellness programs can get retirement plan participants to maximize their savings opportunity.

Deutsche and Fidelity cut fund expenses; Transamerica debuts smart beta ETFs; and Vanguard adds TimeSquare Capital to advisory team.

DiMeo Schneider will be a 3(38) fiduciary investment manager for the program.

401(k) investors in their 20s are investing much less in company stock than their counterparts did in 1996 and plenty more in balanced funds, a joint study by...

On the IRS’ list are rules and guidance for which it still plans to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).

Discussing a new Wells Fargo tool, the Outcome Optimizer, the firm’s director of relationship management suggests granting plan sponsors a view into the performance of peers’ plans is...

The median equity exposure of equally weighted TDF vintages is 60%; equity exposure ranges from as high as 68% to as low as 51%, according to an analysis...

Twenty-eight percent are now making more conservative investments, and 26% no longer invest at all.

Fidelity found that fully 40% of those who managed their own account had a stock allocation in their 401(k) that was higher than recommended, up from 38% in...

A study finds that Americans now need to save more for a comfortable retirement than in the past, and sound education, as well as plan design, can drive...

Employers are pursuing a wider array of approaches to reduce health care cost and risk—both through improved program efficiencies and members’ health engagement, Willis Towers Watson finds.

“The DOL conflict of interest rule poses risk to a firm if [practice leaders] knowingly allow advisers to manage underperforming portfolios for clients when a better-performing portfolio with...

Educating retirement plan participants about the consequences of taking loans from their account balance, as well as a few plan design changes, can limit the amount of loans...

Both May and June were light trading months for 401(k) participants, but when they did trade, they favored equities.

A study by the CRR finds that state and local pension funding is expected to improve in 2017 due to strong market returns, but a new approach to...

Several states are in the process of debating and potentially adopting their own legislation relating to the fiduciary responsibilities of broker/dealers and investment advisers.

A research report says health crises, job losses or other life transitions lead retirement plan participants to pull money from their accounts or discontinue contributing.

Most companies used a single weighted average discount rate to measure the interest cost and service cost components of benefit cost, but PwC found, beginning in 2015, many...