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The certified public accounting and business consulting firm REDW has created Alliance Benefit Group Southwest, a separate company for retirement plan recordkeeping and third-party administration (TPA) services.

Millenials are realistic about their future retirement, with 73% expecting to work past retirement age.

Advisers wondering how and what to Tweet, or where to find value in LinkedIn can usually turn to their companies, according to a LIMRA study.

FRA PlanTools says its compliance solutions have been “re-engineered from the ground up” to better serve Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) fiduciaries.

True or false: a given asset manager’s 2050 target-date fund will outperform its 2045 counterpart during a year of strong market growth and manageable volatility.

Four new asset managers have made it to the plan sponsors’ top 10 list.

A new report from Vanguard shows the majority of its global retirement plan clients—some 90 companies holding $650 billion in plan assets across three or more countries—have taken...

Internet-loving Millennials have financial goals—saving more is a top priority—but few have professional assistance or an actual plan, a survey finds.

What American investors say they will do and what they actually wind up doing to save for retirement shows a big gap, according to an Edward Jones retirement...

The IRS encourages plan sponsors to include completed reference lists with determination letter applications.

Retirement consulting and administration firm USI Consulting Group has added Lou Ressler to its retirement services team as a vice president.

Columbia Management has joined forces with its U.K.-based affiliate Threadneedle Investments to launch Columbia Threadneedle Investments.

A new name, logo and redesigned website are the former Lincoln Trust’s latest steps in building its retirement business brand.

J. David Ballard has been appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer of Cetera Financial Group, effective April 13.

Effectively timing equity markets is extremely difficult to do, and over the long term, emotional decisionmaking during market lows can rob huge portions of potential returns.

The DOL sued retirement plan fiduciaries in Connecticut for failing to forward contributions and loan repayments withheld from participants’ paychecks as required by ERISA.

New safe harbor correction methods related to automatic enrollment features in defined contribution plans are being implemented by the Internal Revenue Service.

The acquisition of Trinity Consulting by NFP expands the firm’s employee benefit offerings in the Southeast United States.

A recent survey from Fifth Third Bank finds a vast majority of Americans cannot identify the Internal Revenue Service’s limits placed on annual tax-advantaged retirement plan deferrals.

Twenty-five percent of young women who responded to a recent Prudential survey felt they were “not in the right stage of life” to work with a professional financial...