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Fitch Ratings reports hedge fund assets under management (AUM) should continue growing toward $3 trillion, despite high-profile pension plan withdrawals over the past six weeks.

 

A federal judge last week approved the city of Detroit’s plan to get out of bankruptcy.

Augmented reality technology via a mobile application (app) from Transamerica Retirement Solutions can help drive up retirement savings. 

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) published an interim final rule to implement Form 5500 annual reporting changes for multiple employer plans (MEPs).

Federal employee benefit regulators have become aware of certain group health plan benefit designs that lack coverage for in-patient hospitalization services being promoted to employers.

In an effort to diversify their portfolios, institutions are making sizable investments in real assets and are planning to increase their level of activity next year, according to...

Equities contributed to negative returns in the third quarter for the U.S. Master Trust Universe, says BNY Mellon.

The Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service (TUCS) shows performance was down for all plan types in the third quarter.

Measuring risk tolerance is critical, say experts in the field of risk tolerance and decisionmaking, but few retirement plan sponsors and advisers in the U.S. do it correctly.

Managed account and investment services provider Financial Engines announced Lawrence Raffone will succeed Jeffrey Maggioncalda as chief executive officer of the firm, effective January 1, 2015.

Professionally managed assets of U.S. investors reached $36.8 trillion in 2013, according to a new analysis from investment analytics firm Cerulli Associates.

Baby Boomers and Millennials stand at opposite ends of the career pathway. Does this mean their retirement investments should be opposites as well?

The U.S. Department of Labor has secured a nearly $2 million voluntary correction by Cox Enterprises Inc. after the Atlanta, Georgia-based company violated the Employee Retirement Income Security...

Realizing its pension plan is unsustainable, the Singing River Health System in Mississippi is offering employees the option to cash out now.

Defined contribution plan recordkeeping data shows U.S. participants are strongly committed to their workplace retirement savings programs, according to the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

An appeals court has opened the door for the requirement that an ERISA plan’s investment guidelines be disclosed to participants upon request.

Buck Consultants at Xerox announced the launch of SavIncent, an incentive-based financial wellness program.

The funded status of the typical U.S. corporate pension plan fell 0.4 percentage points to 89.5% in October, according to the BNY Mellon Investment Strategy and Solutions Group...

Worldwide, exchange-traded fund (ETF) assets fell in September to $2.6 trillion, as all major regions excluding Canada saw a slight decline in assets.

The estimated aggregate funding level of pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies stayed at 84% as drop in rates offset gains from...