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The impact of health care law on the future of qualified retirement plans.

Here’s a question to ask your plan sponsor clients: “Why do you offer a 401(k) plan?”

I have always taken seriously the notion that news and information should be presented “straight”, and without commentary. 

There is a “common wisdom” in our business that suggests that all plan sponsors are, more or less, alike.

Change is a reality of life.

About two months ago, the Department of Labor asked the public for some insights on retirement income via a request for information, or RFI.  

For all the fuss about fees, a recent friend of the court filing by the Department of Labor reminds us that it’s not just what you...

Last Saturday night, we returned to a home darkened by a power outage.  

There are in this--or perhaps any—business certain moments of epiphany that shed light and clarity,

I don’t know if you’ve gotten to this point in your year yet, but we’ve started doing taxes in our household.

On Friday, the Department of Labor, as part of the White House’s Middle Class Task Force, formally unveiled a couple of initiatives.

Offering a strong retirement package can be the key to success.

It was hard not to be struck this past week by that Pew Center on the States report titled “The Trillion Dollar Gap.” 

Two weeks ago, the Department of Labor and the U.S. Treasury turned to the retirement plan community for some input. 

Heading into Super Bowl weekend, a new report focused attention on another “contest.”

More than the subtleties of the law, the nuances of crafting a cogent legal brief, and the humiliations that often accompany the public exercise of the Socratic method, the...

One of the things I have always enjoyed most about this job is the access to information—not only from our own research, but from any number of academic...

As the New Year begins, we are often of a mind to think about making a fresh start.

What might the year past mean for the year ahead - on fee disclosure, target date funds, investment advice?  

Like most Americans who have health insurance (and most do), I’m reasonably happy with what I already have.