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New York City’s police pension won’t sell about $10 million in gun-related holdings, the president of the biggest officer union says.

A recent Schwab survey of planning students at Texas Tech found that the lure of client relationship management and working in-person with clients remains high, with nearly half of students citing the latter as a priority.

Mercer, Lockton, Burnham Benefits, Towers Watson and Pentegra all announce personnel moves. Check to see if a colleague is mentioned today.

The industry has gone through an evolution in the way it delivers services to clients, the way businesses operate and the state of the competitive market. At some point in there, value added services became all the rage. But now we have a problem, says EBA Blogger Wendy Keneipp.

Express Scripts, however, says the decline was offset by an 18.4% rise in spending on specialty medications. The aggregate trend for 2012 was a bump of 2.7%, similar to that of 2011.

Many employer plan sponsors are expressing a high level of interest in adding Roth 401(k) in-plan conversions as an option to their 401(k) plans in 2013. The recently passed Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 made it possible for retirement plan participants to convert existing 401(k) plan balances to Roth 401(k) balances, whether or not the participant is distribution eligible.

The challenges confronting many retirement plan advisers are familiar.

New 401(k) loan transactions were down approximately 5% year-over-year, and total hardship and in-service withdrawals were down nearly 8%, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s most recent 401(k) Wellness Scorecard, released Thursday.

Health experts agree: exercise and physical activity can only get you so far. To a large extent, you are what you eat. So, with proper diet an integral part of any wellness program, why can it be so hard to eat healthy? One in three American adults and 20% of American children are now considered obese, says Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Michael Moss. Additionally, Moss says, 24 million people in the U.S. suffer from type 2 diabetes with another 79 million having pre-diabetes. [Images: Shutterstock]

Bacteria — including E. coli resistant to all or nearly all antibiotics — are being seen in increasing numbers, according to news this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Worse, the most dangerous kind of bacteria are growing in proportion.