Retirement planning

Scheduling on-site training, attending webinars and preparing yearly checklists are among the best ways employers can fulfill their responsibilities, says benefits lawyer Carol Buckmann.

The Insured Retirement Institute is urging Congress to enact a host of policies that it says will boost retirement security.

Employees can simplify their retirement portfolio by merging multiple accounts.

Clients should embrace auto-enrollment, automatically increase employee contributions each year and continually educate workers about 401(k) benefits.

The Florida Education Association is urging the state body that manages pension funds for its members to sell its holdings in companies that make a semi-automatic rifle.

The new tax law has extended the grace period for outstanding 401(k) loans made by workers who switch jobs, luring more participants to borrow from their accounts, exposing them to greater risk.

Plan sponsors should limit the number of fund selections, provide more fixed income choices and offer index options.

– Airline pilots, still resentful over pensions yanked away in a wave of industry bankruptcies, see growing company profits as a chance to reclaim some of those lost benefits.

It’s a good time to remind plan sponsors to adhere to long-term investing techniques built upon discipline and best-practices.

Now is the time to consider implementing operational checkups for tax-qualified retirement plans to ensure they're in compliance, says attorney Kathleen Dreyfus Bardunias.

Industry insiders say smaller firms can benefit from deductions while still maintaining workplace retirement plans.

401(k)s gaining popularity as 403(b)s and DB plans terminate, Transamerica’s annual survey with the American Hospital Association shows.

Employers should embrace auto-enrollment, automatically increase employee contributions each year and continually educate workers about 401(k) benefits.

Industry insiders say smaller firms can benefit from deductions while still maintaining workplace retirement plans.

401(k)s gaining popularity as 403(b)s and DB plans terminate, Transamerica’s annual survey with the American Hospital Association shows.

Auto-enrollment, auto-escalation, participant investment advice and Roth 401(k) availability are among the important traits of a plan.

The legislation presents many plan sponsors with an immediate opportunity to make a pension contribution in 2018 and obtain a deduction at the higher 2017 tax rate.

Pension account auto-portability can provide security to millions of retirement-savers across America.

Employers play a big role in the savings success of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender employees because they are more likely to plan for and save for their post-work years if their firm sponsors a 401(k).

Working longer and delaying Social Security could result in a bigger retirement benefit.