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The culture of an investment manager organization can have a strong impact on putting plan sponsor and adviser interests first, research suggests.

Investors are feeling the impact of weak investment returns and the prolonged low-interest-rate environment.

“The interest in ESG and corporate governance issues for investors only looks set to grow given its prevalence amongst Millennials,” says Jessica Ground with Schroders.

Because plan establishment occurs on the web, employers and employees pay no set-up fees.

The lawsuit accuses the bank of using an "easy enroll" feature to funnel funds into its TDFs, which it says charge too much.

The proposed regulations would provide guidance about changes made by the Pension Protection Act of 2006 to the minimum present value requirements applicable to certain defined benefit pension...

The lawsuit alleges the Sequoia Fund was an imprudent investment for the retirement plan because of its high concentration in Valeant Pharmaceuticals stock.

The California Public Employee Retirement system outlines several cost-saving strategies including changes to its health care program and its investment-management practices.

BlackRock updates Lifepath TDFs, and SSGA to introduce proprietary indexes to replace terminated Russell indexes.

Health care costs continue to rise, but an approach utilizing the right investment vehicles and tools to gauge future health care expenses may help investors prepare for the...

Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson to succeed father as chairman, and AB creates chief marketing officer role.

Loaded with information about when employees may begin participating in plans, benefits involved, vesting and so on, the language utilized in summary plan descriptions (SPDs) is critical.

Changes made to the CPS in response to reports of inaccuracies in gaging income led to miscalculations in reporting the amount of employees engaged in employer-sponsored retirement plans,...

The Louisiana Firefighters’ Retirement System and other public pension funds alleged that Northern Trust breached its fiduciary duties and its contract related to the funds’ investment in the...

The table is used to determine expected retirement ages for participants.

Among other things, ERIC suggests the PBGC extend the program from just terminated DC plans to all DC plans.

The GAO suggests regulators re-evaluate eligibility age requirements, vesting policies and whether to allow plan sponsors to require employment on the last day of the year to receive...

The new process will affect Employee Plans examinations.

A participant in Disney’s retirement plan alleged that fiduciaries should have dropped a fund from the plan investment menu because one of its underlying investments showed signs of...

Milliman reports that multiemployer pension plans’ funded status has been steady so far in 2016, but its analysis shows questionable results for these plans going forward.