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The organization representing employment benefit leaders seeks clarity for a number of items in the SECURE 2.0 Act.

Implementing dollar caps alongside other plan automation features may help foster more equity in plan design, new Vanguard research shows.

T. Rowe Price partners with Ascensus to support its 529 business; Pontera and Stifel help 401(k) participants pursue retirement goals; MassMutual offers CAIS alternative investment platform to advisers.

The Department of Labor’s Assistant Secretary Gomez offers tools and information for assisting with the transition to retirement from work in a new blog post.

Retirement plan and benefit disclosures should only be given to participants if they contain actionable information, industry groups say.

Millions of people aged 55 and above have outstanding student loans, significantly impacting how much they are able to save for retirement, analysis from the New School finds.

The retirement plan committee for the engineering firm’s $5.1 billion plan is sued over the fees participants paid after being defaulted into managed accounts.

New J.P. Morgan research finds that participants experience spending surges and volatility at different points of retirement.

The regional plan, based in New Jersey, has more than 4,000 participants in food service.

The legislation mirrors another bill in the House, which increases credits for offering retirement plans for the smallest businesses.

Transaction with MetLife is one of several billion-dollar buyouts completed so far in 2024.

The 9 organizations tell a Texas federal court that the new fiduciary rule “exceeds the DOL’s authority under federal law” and call it “arbitrary and capricious.”

Gangwani named CIO of Legal & General Retirement America; ERISA attorneys hired by Norton Rose Fulbright and Nossaman; Abrdn CEO steps down as asset manager searches for a...

Plaintiffs seek class status in case that alleges South Carolina-based firm permitted excessive fees on the $1.2 billion plan.

An ‘isolated email error’ caused Walmart retirement plan participants’ names and Social Security numbers to be exposed.

A class of participants was certified in a federal district court lawsuit against American Airlines’ Plan for Pilots.  

Timothy Hauser explained in an ABA webinar that the new fiduciary rule is different from the old one and compliant with previous litigation.

The first quarter of 2024 has already seen two jumbo PRT deals, with Verizon and Shell offloading their pension liabilities.

Instead, they would likely adopt liquidity fees, though Chair Gensler did not say so explicitly.

Ameritas launches pooled employer plan for nonprofit organizations; Stash announced new workplace benefit StashWorks; Flex Benefits introduces insurance solution; and more.