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The deadline for the 2020 Plan Adviser and Adviser Team of the Year award nominations is October 18.

FIDx and Transamerica partner to provide annuities; Fidelity adds customized models to AMP solution; J.P Morgan improves TDF analysis tool;...

Mesirow Financial presents third mutual fund and managed account program, and MSCI builds indexes to track long-term megatrends.

Social Security is a big part of retirement income planning for employees.

The interactive sales tool also assigns a grade for retirement plans and is designed to improve advisers’ conversations with plan sponsor clients.

The tool helps small employers and advisers find the right retirement savings option to offer employees.

OneAmerica expands its group annuity platform with ESG offerings, and Vanguard adds an international core stock fund, overseen by Wellington Management. 

The typical investor has five to six accounts, multiple products and custodians, and two or three advisers managing their assets.

Fidelity partners with Ethic to offer tailored portfolios; Global X launches cannabis ETF; SSGA rebrands ETFs to portfolio suite; and...

Chatbots, automated voice services, smart CRM systems and data mining are the main ways that retirement plan advisers today are using artificial intelligence.

Industry insiders discuss why offering financial wellness is a must-have for today’s retirement plan advisers.

Thanks to legislation such as the SECURE Act, new products and the need, the market is warming to guaranteed income.

John Hancock to offer Morningstar adviser managed account services; Franklin Templeton expands active fixed income ETF suite; and industry veterans...

Increasingly, HSAs are being viewed, accepted, and treated in the industry, as a long-term investment strategy.

Vanguard researchers emphasize that while the value of advice was once traditionally based on portfolio outcomes, goal success rates and advisory relationships are results of effective guidance as...

How NQDC plans can help plan sponsor clients attract, retain and reward key employees and executives.

Industry insiders discuss what a ‘true financial wellness program’ is and is not—and what it should consist of.

Offering guidance to participants is critically important, advisers say, and can yield profitable wealth management relationships.

The RetireSmart app also allows retirement savers to link to RetireSmart.com, an online site that provides information and tools to help retirement savers reach their goals.

The two entities look to encourage CIT adoption among investors, a move that they say has stalled due to low awareness of the funds.