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Seventy percent of DB plan sponsors are contributing more to their plans than the minimum required amount.

Deana Calvelli joins Lockton; Brett Dutton comes to PNC Institutional Asset Management; Dave Anders & Associates affiliates with PlanMember Securities Corporation.

The market for investment services devised to meet specific institutional client objectives will grow by more than $1 trillion over the next five years, predicts global analytics firm...

Researchers suggest taking employers out of the process of offering employees DC retirement plans.

President Obama signed a law lowering the age at which federal public safety officers can tap retirement accounts without penalty.

Executive benefits continue to be a strategic component of total rewards programs for health care executives, Mercer finds.

Managing multiple retirement plans can get tricky—especially when different groups of employees are in different plans.

The financial firm says the proposal has “unduly complicated” provisions.

Over-funded pension plans would have a longer time period in which they could use surpluses to pay for retiree health and life insurance benefits.

Prudential’s 2012 “Innovative Strategies to Help Maximize Social Security Benefits” has been updated to address concerns for same-gender couples.

Two in ten employees say spending too much is the biggest financial mistake they have made.

A court has found questions exist about whether a privately-held company had a duty to disclose a contemplated merger to ESOP participants who sold company stock shares.

And real estate is the most popular alternative asset class for pensions, a survey shows.

Money market funds received the most inflows from defined contribution plan participant transfers in June.

The National Bureau of Economic Research dispels some myths about retirement.

The second in a series of articles about how to boost retirement plan participant engagement and outcomes beyond automatically enrolling employees.

The latest court order culminates six years of investigations and three years of legal battle.

The number of employers expressing concern about health care law affecting their business is about half what it was three years ago.

But because defaults are so low, their contributions are lower than those who voluntarily opt in.

Pentegra Participant SmartPath generates recommended retirement savings practices to boost outcomes.