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More than a decade ago, my mom was getting her finances ready for retirement.

I spent some of my precious three-day weekend perusing Teresa Ghilarducci’s When I’m Sixty-Four, an intriguing title for a book about pensions–or, as the subtitle suggests, “The Plot...

The Supreme Court’s recent 401(k) ruling should be a warning.

Last week, AARP published a report on how economic worries are impacting Americans.

Last week, the Connecticut legislature didn’t get around to voting on a bill that would have effectively set up a state-sponsored 401(k) plan for small businesses.

There’s been a lot of talk about tax policy of late.

I was discussing the subject of retirement the other day with a friend.

It seems that nearly everyone today is feeling the pinch of the current economy.

Last week, the House Committee on Education and Labor passed the 401(k) Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act (H.R. 3185).

I hate going to the doctor for a checkup.

Ours is an industry of fairly recent invention–one that is, in many respects, only just beginning to emerge from the growth pangs of adolescence.

An early “win″ for plan sponsors (perhaps more accurately, a win for a plan sponsor) was Hecker v. Deere&Co.

There’s a growing recognition that retirement plan managers are under the gun because of new legislation as well as increases in employee mobility and auto-enrollment.

Over the past several weeks, I’ve gotten a lot of calls from reporters across the country looking to understand more about what appears to be a recent uptick...

When a co-worker forwarded to me an e-mail about Eliot Spitzer’s alleged tie with a prostitution ring last week, I thought it was a joke.

While it’s been a relatively mild winter here (and it’s not over yet), it’s been cold enough—and our house old enough—that opening the various utility bills has been...

If you watch commercial TV (that is to say, TV with commercials), you’ve no doubt been struck by the proliferation of ads for various prescription medicines.

As U.S. workers continue to change jobs at an unprecedented rate (experts say it’s now up to 20 percent annually), the retirement accounts they leave behind with previous...

Looks like James LaRue will get his day in court, after all.

One of the more well-known Aesop’s Fables is the story of “The Ant and the Grasshopper.″