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Despite market volatility and a continued low interest rate environment, DB plan sponsors can still establish an effective LDI strategy to derisk their plans.

Nearly 85% of pension plans paying PBGC premiums have less than 1,000 participants—so it only makes sense that small plans make up a significant proportion of the ERISA...

In addition, companies are rounding out their wellbeing offerings, particularly recognizing the negative effects of poor financial wellbeing, with two-thirds seeing lowered productivity as a direct impact, and...

The company will help individuals with their 403(b), 401(a) and/or 457(b) plans.

Vanguard Innovation Center to Open in 2017; and Morningstar Launches Open Indexes Project with Free Access to Global Equity Indexes.

A convergence of factors is expected to lead asset managers to innovate products and services.

HDHP participants are putting off care which could result in greater costs down the road and only 41% say they are better health care consumers.

An analysis of defined contribution participant distribution behavior supports the use of “through” target-date funds and the allowance of partial distributions from DC plans.

Fidelity recommends that individuals regularly monitor their mix of stocks, bonds and cash in their 401(k), but not make changes driven by short-term market volatility or other economic...

A federal court has ordered the fiduciaries to restore losses to plan participants.

The IRS says retirement plan sponsors can still skip some compliance questions on the form.

In order for two recent college graduates to have the same amount of money saved for retirement, the average man would need to save 10% of his salary,...

The digital educational program will be available to all John Hancock Retirement Plan participants and their families. 

BrightScope is the leading provider of retirement plan, sales and distribution data.

Many employees overestimate their understanding of benefits, and less than half believe their employer is doing a good job educating them about benefits, according to a Guardian study. 

The number of defined benefit pension plans increased by 1.6% in 2014; however, defined contribution plans remain the dominant retirement plan type.

Use of auto-deferral increase and auto-rebalancing has declined in the past two years; however, there is increased interest from 401(k) plan sponsors in offering participants investment advice, research...

ASPPA welcomes new president; John Hancock names Taft-Hartley director; and T. Rowe Price expands mega market sales team.

Nearly six in 10 Americans expect the markets to become more volatile following the results of the presidential election, a survey found.