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Speaking at a Brookings Institution public meeting, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez said he is “confident we will be making changes to improve and clarify our proposal.”

A new Mercer study cites increased life expectancy and reduced estimates in funding available for Social Security as primary reasons for the United States' drop in the firm’s...

Thinking the retirement industry has failed to deliver on its goals, state governments are trying to get into the retirement business.

This week brings promotions at T. Rowe Price and Wilshire Consulting, as well as third-party administrator acquisitions.

The company launched the “Let’s Go!” program corresponding with National Save for Retirement Week.

Academic scholar and adviser to the Georgetown Center for Retirement Initiatives shares his ideas for creating state-supported “individual DBs” to bring workplace retirement benefits to more private-sector workers.

After giving employers pedometers, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tennessee found it doesn’t take great strides to cut costs and improve employees’ health.

A recent court decision put fear in DC plan sponsors about offering company stock in the plan lineup, but it can still be a prudent investment if they...

FingerCheck offers tools and reports to help employers keep tabs of their full-time employee count.

BlackRock launches impact equity funds, and Schwab reveals money market fund changes.

Investment managers surveyed by Northern Trust have changed their views since the second quarter.

Borrowing from the approach in teachers' lesson books, a new learning lab shows school employees the value of a 403(b) plan.

Currently under the ACA, employers with 51 to 100 employees are small employers.

But it does make sense to revisit risk tolerance.

A quarterly update from BlackRock shows estimated cost of future retirement income rose slowly but steadily in the third quarter.

There was no increase in inflation in the third quarter, so under current law, there will be no increase in Social Security payments.

The program allows retirement plan advisers to build and manage customized investment portfolios for the plans they support.

Stakeholders raised concerns regarding the inability of governments whose employees are provided pension benefits through multiple-employer pension plans to obtain information required under GASB Statement No. 68.

Plan sponsors and participants stand to gain from advisers shopping around.

A federal court has ruled that a top-hat plan’s calculation and distribution of a lump sum in place of a retiree’s monthly installments after plan termination did not...