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Last week, no fewer than a dozen industry trade organizations put their collective heads together and tried to help the Department of Labor—which has been working on a...

I was on a panel at our recent Plan Designs conference, and the topic of qualified default investment alternatives (QDIAs) came up.

Last week the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a 67-page report titled "Conflicts of Interest Involving High Risk or Terminated Plans Pose Enforcement Challenges."

With all the tact of a law professor dressing down a first-year student, U.S. District Judge John Shabaz of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of...

Plan sponsors who think the Pension Protection Act's automatic enrollment safe harbor represents an easy solution to disappointing participation rates may have another "think" coming, according to the...

Last week, I stumbled across another of those "DC plans are becoming like DB plans" articles—you know, the "DB-ification" of 401(k)s?

Sooner or later in your career, you are exposed to the 80/20 rule or, as purists term it, the Pareto principle.

When Fidelity announced recently that it was dropping its pension plan, it drew my attention.

April 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - We have NewsDash readers around the world, and with job responsibilities that are just as varied.

For now we see through a glass, darkly.

Those of you who find Fidelity's updated research results a bit "rosy" compared with other projections may recall comparable results from their readiness index a year ago.

It's an undisputed fact that the vast majority of retirement plan participants never rebalance their accounts.

Last Friday, the Department of Labor issued a Field Assistance Bulletin on the "Statutory Exemption for Investment Advice."

Earlier this month, we passed the "anniversary" of the commencement of bombing strikes in Operation Desert Storm (1991).

Last month it was my privilege to act as co-host and moderator for our first-ever Defined Benefit Summit.

A couple of weeks ago, we got a panicked call from daughter No. 1, who had, on her way home from work, gotten her first flat tire.

I've been in this business since before I graduated college (and that's now been a while) - but my first interaction with a financial adviser didn't happen until...

Deals like the one announced on Friday by The 401(k) Company, Nationwide, and Schwab are the kind of thing that gives plan sponsors heartburn.

A few years back—when my kids still believed in the reality of Santa Claus—we discovered an ingenious Web site that purported to offer a real-time assessment of their...

December 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As one can tell from the near-daily series of surveys we have reported on, 'tis the season for office holiday parties.