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Women are pretty competent at managing their finances and saving for retirement, but when it comes to judging their own performance, confidence takes a nosedive.

The National Institute on Retirement Security says three states’ switch from a defined benefit pension to a defined contribution plan exacerbated pension underfunding.

A volatile start to the year on Wall Street fueled higher-than-usual trading activity among defined contribution plan participants in January, according to Aon Hewitt.

Fewer participants changed their defined contribution plan asset allocations in 2014 than in 2013.

The acquisition of New York Life Retirement Plan Services widens John Hancock’s breadth of solutions for retirement plans.

Trust, transparency and time are essential ingredients of the successful OCIO and plan sponsor relationship, says Towers Watson in its annual Global Investment Matters publication.

A new retirement income investment option from Voya Financial and AllianceBernstein seeks to deliver a sustainable lifetime income strategy for participants in large 401(k) plans.

Groom Law Group announced the hiring of Joshua Shapiro.

A hardy banking industry, strong health care services and solid economic performance have kept Switzerland’s retirement system at the top of Natixis’ 2015 Global Retirement Index.

A new academic research paper reexamines how pension costs were related to defaults and bankruptcies at high-profile U.S. corporations in the airline, automotive and steel manufacturing industries.

A lawsuit claims retirement plan provider and asset manager Aegon USA caused superfluous fees to be charged to its own retirement plan.

All plan types had a median return of 1.70% in Q4 2014.

Home-country bias in equity holdings has declined among pension plans globally.

Greenspring Wealth Management has launched the Target Date (k)larity evaluation tool, aimed at supporting the fiduciary needs of retirement plan sponsors and participants.

Nine account representatives from the retirement plan provider community selected as Service Stars.

Dave Ramsey’s SmartDollar takes a holistic approach to retirement education, focusing on behavior and teaching people the basics: budgeting, saving for an emergency and getting out of debt. 

The largest pension of grocery chain Safeway received $212 million in contributions.

Employer offerings of high deductible health plans surpassed health maintenance organizations in 2014.

The Center for American Progress contends millions of Americans are in danger of not having enough money to maintain their standard of living in retirement, and the problem...

Starting this year, employers of 50 or more full-time employees will have to meet significant new reporting requirements for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).