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Called the Principal Income Protector, a new tool from The Principal Financial Group helps financial professionals deliver post-retirement income solutions and advice.

Fiduciary Investment Advisors (FIA) opened a new office in Kennebunk, Maine.

John Hancock Investments is contractually lowering expenses for nearly all funds with Class R6 institutional share classes.

Target-date funds had an average total return of 5.4% for the fourth quarter of 2013, according to Morningstar data.

Accurately tracking practice metrics and documenting operating procedures are two ways firm owners can build value during the succession planning process.

How participants deal with their 401(k) assets when they leave a company is under more scrutiny from FINRA, but retirement plan advisers are less likely to be affected...

TD Ameritrade Institutional revealed plans to develop and launch an “intelligent technology platform” for use by financial advisers.

For the third time in its history, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is using its authority to partition an insolvent employer’s participants from a multiemployer plan to...

TD Ameritrade Institutional launched a campus-to-career program to help independent advisory firms win and retain the next generation of financial services talent.

A 16% increase in 2014 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums pushed Mercer’s Pension Buyout Index into positive territory, meaning it could be cheaper for many employers to...

Approval for an auto-enrolled retirement plan at the federal level is near unanimous, but there may still be some bumps to iron out.

Proposed legislation from Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) would expand access to privately run, portable retirement plans for all workers.

A new program from TD Ameritrade offers registered investment advisers (RIAs) a turnkey solution for simplified development and management of qualified defined contribution retirement plans.

In this new age of fee disclosure, it may be surprising to some that more than one-quarter (26.6%) of respondents to PLANSPONSOR’s 2013 Defined Contribution (DC) Survey do...

President Obama raised both hopes and eyebrows when he introduced new proposals for combating America’s retirement crisis during his fifth State of the Union address.

A strong majority of working parents already saving for their kids’ college expenses rank future education costs among the top reasons to save in 2014.

How you look most affects your life prospects, and looks can most definitely spell success, according to a report by the Council on Contemporary Families.

ING U.S. Inc., soon to be rebranded as Voya Financial Inc., named Stephen Keating as head of large corporate market sales for its retirement solutions business.

Plan participants are seeking a financially secure retirement, with more than one-third (34%) seeing the generation of guaranteed monthly income as the main goal of their retirement plan.

Americans tend to view defined contribution (DC) retirement accounts favorably, and they like the way DC contributions and withdrawals are taxed, research shows.