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CITs have been made more accessible for small to mid-size retirement plans.

The CalPERS Board determined that pay granted as a lawsuit settlement was not pay that could be included in pension benefit calculations.

LIMRA claims its research challenges the idea that retirement saving is “crowded out” by other financial goals.

A research brief looks at efforts states are taking to fill the retirement plan coverage gap for private-sector employers and argues a national auto-IRA program would be more...

Cross-testing can benefit older, highly paid employees, but can be a win for other employees too.

This week Northern Trust announced enhancements to services for private equity investment clients, while Franklin Templeton expanded multi-asset solutions capability with new open architecture offering.

Companies underestimate how much help their employees want or need with retirement planning, according to a survey released by BlackRock.

The central issue in the case was whether several collective bargaining agreements entitled a class of retirees from Moen Inc. to vested healthcare benefits for life. 

A survey from the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans shows that nearly half of plan participants do not understand benefits materials, and most do not even open...

According to academic researchers in personal financial planning, retirement planning tools may lack crucial inputs or subtly push individuals to buy investment products.

The DOL has begun investigations, attorneys tell PLANSPONSOR.

Research finds many retirement plan participants use the match as a guide for how much to save in their plans.

There has been an uptick in the use of private exchanges among mid-sized employers.

Dave Ramsey’s SmartDollar financial wellness solution will soon be available to retirement plan sponsor clients of T. Rowe Price.

The SOA has recently given accolades to the Screen Actors Guild Producers Pension Plan; what can other multiemployer plan sponsors do to be like them?

Only 2.9% of DC plan participants took withdrawals in the first three quarters of 2015, compared with 3.1% during the first three quarters of 2014, according to an...

From 1998 to 2015, the percentage of Fortune 500 employers offering a traditional, final salary DB plan to most newly hired employees fell from roughly half to 5%.

Voya will take over benefit payments for retirees of Chemtura Corporation.

A district court agreed that a prudent fiduciary would have made the same decision to remove Nabisco stock from the RJR 401(k) plan.

Only about half of non-retired persons say they are saving enough for a suitable standard of living in retirement.