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Hewitt Associates research said that not only will women need more retirement savings than men, but the gap between what they need and their savings is greater than...

Players who have a good golf day might also have judged the hole to be bigger in size, new research says.

SOLUTIONS 2008, Schwab Institutional’s annual regional workshop series about technology best practices for advisers, kicks off today in Boston.

A recent Spectrem Group study found that sponsors who use advisers as their main source of contact with providers are talking to providers more than others.

Our previous segment focused on establishing fees for the financial planning services you offer to retirement plans and plan participants. The next step explores how to articulate your...

Principal Financial Group released a tool to help financial professionals walk clients through retirement planning.

Lincoln Employer Markets, a division of Lincoln Financial Group, launched Morningstar Retirement Manager, including Morningstar Associates’ 401(k) managed accounts service.

Ascensus updated its Plan Adoption System (PAS) to provide plan documents that are compliant with the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act.

A district court ruled that the Dell Inc. 401(k) Plan did not violate fiduciary duties by allowing more than half of the assets to be invested in company...

John Irvin has been appointed president of PartnersFinancial, one of National Financial Partners Corp.’s (NFP) national membership organizations, the company said.

FundQuest added five new products to their Wealth Architect platform, including investment product ActivePassive Portfolios, the company said.

EBRI research says auto enrollment produces improved retirement savings results.

Ameriprise Financial, Inc. has agreed to acquire asset management firm J.&W. Seligman&Co. Incorporated.

Janus Capital Group Inc. has announced plans to pump another $90 million into U.S. value manager Perkins, Wolf, McDonnell and Company, LLC.

There are some changes in store for those who rely on Russell Indexes as a performance benchmark.

Invesco PowerShares and Deutsche Bank renamed 11 recently listed long and short Agriculture, Gold, and Commodity exchange-traded notes (ETNs) linked to variations of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity...

Over the past several years, it has become “fashionable″ in some quarters to bash the workplace retirement savings plan; most frequently, the 401(k).

Russell Investments has added companies in Vietnam to the Russell Global Index for the first time.

In order to encourage Americans to make saving for retirement an everyday event, the government is set to dedicate a whole week to it.

Affluent investor and millionaires showed sagging optimism in the month of June, according to results of Spectrem’s indexes.