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Lawmakers are proposing that efforts to deter the DOL’s fiduciary rule should be included in a must-pass budget proposal.

Partners Group introduces private markets funds for the defined contribution market; Allianz Global Investors launches dynamic target-date collective investment trust series; and more.

New research from the Michigan Retirement Research Center shows important differences in the retirement outlooks of singles and couples. 

Data from RFP assistance provider InHub reveals why plan sponsors search for new plan advisers and what they ask for in the RFP process.

 

Ongoing product innovation among insurance providers and asset managers is slowly improving choice for investors hoping to convert DC plan assets to guaranteed income streams.

 

Market and regulatory factors will lead defined benefit plan sponsors to pursue more active strategies and different asset classes.

The growing movement leads to better returns and outcomes, experts say.

Communicating with defined contribution retirement plan participants when certain life events occur can help them with retirement readiness.

 

For those identifying saving as a top priority, nearly two-thirds prefer to set aside money for long-term goals such as college, retirement, and health care.

Pre-retirees among all financial statuses have fears about health costs in retirement, but they are not having the conversations needed to plan.

Institutional investors expect stocks to be the best-performing assets in 2016, according to a new survey report released by Natixis Global Asset Management.

Current Internal Revenue Service employee benefit plan examinations initiatives heading into 2016 match closely the priories announced for the year almost ended.

Plan sponsors that work with an adviser get more information, more service, more everything, a survey says. .

A study looked at considerations important to DC retirement plan sponsors in selecting a stable value product.

Money market fund reforms are leading plan sponsors to consider alternatives to those investments, MetLife finds.

Natixis Global Asset Management announced a new benefit to assist employees with the repayment of their student loan debt.

Suffering an extreme bear market event near the onset of retirement can seriously derail an individual’s ability to maintain financial security late into life. 

A provision in a new law will return Form 5500 deadlines to what they were before the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act was passed.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has announced a number of projects it will complete before the end of 2015 that will affect government pensions.