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The GAO recommends that the Department of Labor require defined benefit plan sponsors to notify the agency when they offer lump-sum payment windows.

A webcast series from the DOL aims to help increase awareness and understanding about basic fiduciary responsibilities for plan sponsors of retirement or health benefit plans.

Nearly four out of 10 retirement plan participants are not familiar with all the investment options in their plan.

A federal court has ordered a fiduciary to repay $300,000 to a number of pension plans, for which the Department of Labor sued over misuse of assets.

Groom Law Group says the addition of two principals to its health and welfare practice expands the firm’s ACA implementation and compliance capabilities.

Vanguard says it is expanding its family of target-date funds, with plans to introduce a new line of low-fee Institutional Target Retirement Funds.

A group of retirees should not have received a lump-sum payment from a nonqualified plan at a change in control because they were not “participants” as defined by...

Years of education, communication strategies and support haven’t done as much to move the needle on retirement plan participant retirement readiness as plan sponsors and advisers hope to...

A new investment research tool from Aon Hewitt provides “insightful and transparent” ratings of thousands of investment products, based on eVestment data and analytics.

Retirement plan sponsors wanting to step up participant communications should make sure their providers are in tune with the latest trends.

LGIMA has hired Mark Toomey, senior client portfolio manager, to assist with its expansion.

Institutional investors are not acting fully on their own expectations when making their asset-allocation decisions, research suggests.

Half of plan sponsors do not take advantage of qualified default investment alternative safe harbor protections, a survey finds.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case said to be the first excessive 401(k) fee litigation to reach the nation’s highest court.

The market is poised for accelerated defined benefit pension plan risk transfer activity, according to speakers featured in a Mercer webcast.

An attempt by Acting Attorney General of New Jersey John J. Hoffman to find the 2011 pension reform Governor Christie signed into law unconstitutional failed.

Underlying 401(k) investment fees declined for both small and large retirement plans in 2014, according to the 15th edition of the 401k Averages Book.

Many fear the new definition of fiduciary will make it harder for retirement plan participants to gain access to advice.

The Center for State and Local Government Excellence examined four public pension systems with a long tradition of being well-funded to determine what they have in common.

President Barack Obama said he expects opposition from special interest groups to the pending fiduciary rule, even though specifics of the rulemaking have not yet been disclosed.