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The IRS announced it will not adjust most current contribution limitations for qualified retirement plans heading into tax year 2016, though some retirement-related tax breaks and other items...

The agency is looking for ways to simplify DB plan calculations.

Principal Pension Builder offers participants an income stream for life.

Most affluent Americans save for their golden years with the aid of a retirement advisory network.

Phyllis Borzi revealed some of the thoughts behind certain DOL initiatives, and asked for help from the industry.

Those with the highest financial stress levels worry most about health insurance.

Retirement and health care are Americans’ biggest financial fears, followed by affording their rent or mortgage.

Your plan’s target-date funds may be affected by changing exposures to international stocks and bonds.

“Cost is not dispositive of prudence,” says Eugene Maloney with Federated Investors.

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.