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J.P. Morgan has agreed to pay approximately $500 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over poor-quality mortgage-backed securities.

Standish Mellon Asset Management Company, a BNY Mellon investment boutique focused on fixed income, hired Max Guimond...

Brian Rondeau is director of Risk Management and Alex Gurvich is director of Commonfund Asset Management Group.

Emily Hooyman will oversee the process of onboarding new clients of The Retirement Advantage.

A new product expands access to institutionally priced lifetime income for thousands of retirement plan participants.

Better retirement plan communications can result in better participant engagement.

The dollar amount secured by the DOL’s Employee Benefit Security Administration dropped substantially in 2014 compared with the previous year, despite a higher number of cases closed and...

Erin M. Sweeney is joining the ERISA & Fiduciary Litigation Practice at Washington, D.C., law firm, Miller & Chevalier.

A pension plan that has changed actuarial services firms can have a change in funding method automatically approved.

The U.S. House of Representatives is trying to ease employer mandate requirements of the ACA.

Recent research supports the argument against investors reacting to every market turn and for solutions that automatically rebalance portfolios.

R. Evan Inglis has joined Nuveen Asset Management as senior actuary in institutional solutions.

The American Academy of Actuaries evaluated how well public and private retirement systems—and proposals to reform them—meet the needs of participants, sponsors and other stakeholders.

In Amara v. CIGNA Corp., an appellate court has once again agreed that a change in plan terms is an appropriate remedy for plan misrepresentations.

Kelly Bush, Pete Ganey and Richard Snyder have joined MassMutual’s retirement services as managing directors who support sales of defined contribution retirement plans in the government market.

A tool from FinMason aims to help 401(k) investors get a better understanding of their retirement plan investments.

The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration says it restored over $599.7 million to employee benefit plans and participants last year.

The move by Alliant Insurance Services to acquire American Benefits Consulting marks the specialty insurance firm’s third employee benefits purchase in the last 12 months.

A lawsuit claims fiduciaries to Avon Products defined contribution plan violated their duties to participants by keeping company stock as an open plan investment.

In 2015, the question for defined benefit plan sponsors will not just be, “What will interest rates do?”