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Governance Leaders are focusing on pursuing new investment strategies, prioritizing risk management capabilities, hiring more risk talent and expanding internal investment capabilities, enhancing their board’s effectiveness, and improving...

Among the worrisome data points shared with this week with U.S. Senators on the Special Committee on Aging is that nearly half of individuals cannot easily cover an...

Advisers can help by including spouses in retirement planning conversations.

It also provided guidance about how to convert a traditional pension to a cash balance plan.

Starting with the Pension Protection Act, the U.S. Congress has tweaked and amended pension funding rules a handful of times in recent years, but has it worked?

Alongside the use of automatic enrollment, the biggest development in QDIAs in the past 10 years has been the replacement of stable value or money market funds as...

While industry practitioners often have deeply held convictions about how to improve the U.S. retirement system, there are already many things plan advisers can do under current legislation...

Advisers are working with more plans today than they ever have—completing more services for more diverse types of clients than was the case prior to the full implementation...

Embracing a greater role in managing household finances and generating family income, Cerulli Associates research suggests women working in the U.S. are eager for financial advice. 

For a significant number of benefit plan sponsors and participants, the successful effort to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act is still having an impact.

Food for thought: If a person who is 15 years old were to start saving $50 a week and stay the course through age 65, they would very...

Fewer than half (44%) of participants surveyed by Charles Schwab are confident making 401(k) decisions on their own, but 74% said they would be confident making 401(k) decisions...

Robo-advisers are growing by providing user-friendly, responsive and automated services to well-defined groups of investors. 

SSGA contends there are things retirement plan sponsors can do to help participants prepare for retirement before their mental capacity begins to wear away.

While Rocaton Investment Advisors strongly advocates for 403(b) plans to consolidate recordkeepers, even those that don't can improve their plans.

There have already been regulations to address DC plan sponsors’ concerns about adding retirement income products to their plan, and Angela Winingham, with MetLife, said she thinks there...

From planning for health care expenses to addressing longevity and market risks, Baby Boomers are in need of help.

Nobody really likes to think about the negative aspects of aging, but advisers have a legal obligation to pursue the long-term financial good of their clients.

The company says leading by example in helping employees achieve financial goals is "the right thing to do."

Two industry leaders take the big-picture view of employer-sponsored benefit programs, participant trends, and what will likely stay or change in the short and long term.