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Regulators including the DOL, PBGC and IRS are seeking to update the reporting requirements related to the Form 5500 filed by private-sector retirement plans. 

By comparison, only one quarter of retirees in all age and income groups have debt.

The optimal asset allocation policy for most retirement savers involves diversifying between traditional pre-tax and Roth after-tax vehicles, research finds.

Men think about retirement more often than women, talk about it more frequently with work colleagues and believe they are more educated about tools needed to have a...

Research finds that nearly all state retirement systems have features that allow for preservation of retirement income benefits even for employees who change jobs.

However, FINRA’s latest national financial capability study found respondents who currently receive retirement income are the most likely to have no difficulty making ends meet.

"Pre-retirees now need to plan on having nearly 10% more in retirement savings than before, in order to buy the same level of deferred income,” BlackRock warns.

Discussions with plan sponsors also reveal the benefits to plan sponsors of utilizing automatic enrollment and automatic contribution escalation.

The former pilots claim the agency shortchanged their benefits to hold on to assets in order to earn investment returns to improve the agency’s financial situation.

Real estate managers continue to have the largest share of pension fund assets, a survey finds.

Only the three oldest female applicants for a slot attendant position, out of 14 applicants, were not hired, the EEOC found.

An equitable tolling period enlarged the number of plaintiffs that can move forward with interference of benefits claims.

A judge found plaintiffs failed to suggest alternative actions the company could have taken that would not potentially harm the fund more.

The firm introduced the benefit after its own survey found Gen X and Millennial workers delay saving for retirement because of student loan debt.

Obama Appoints Member of PBGC Advisory Committee; Wagner Law Group Names Partner; Sain Joins Milliman’s Employee Benefits Practice, and more.

Kravitz found a 19% year-over-year increase in new cash balance plans, compared to 2% for new 401(k)s.

John Hancock Investments enacts expense reductions in TDF suite; Defined Contribution Real Estate Council publishes investing checklist for plans; Morningstar introduces new global risk model.

Despite a slow start to the month, there were three days of above-normal 401(k) participant trading activity—mostly coming after the Brexit news, according to the Aon Hewitt 401(k)...

The Federal Civil Monetary Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 requires agencies to adjust civil monetary penalties annually for inflation.

Mercer has issued a list of top 10 compliance issues to consider when planning for 2017 health benefits.