Retirement

Certain requirements must be met in order to terminate these small business plans.

401(k) plans are largely outscoring 403(b) plans in some key plan features, writes The Principal Financial's Aaron Freidman, who equates this to a pre-season football game.

Survey reveals major benefits communication challenges.

Caution workers against promises of easy money.

Rising interest rates, steep yield curve drive fixed annuity sales growth.

There are pitfalls to stepping out of a 401(k), mostly related to the lack of truly objective advice regarding other retirement investments.

The U.S. government has shuttered over fights on Obamacare, but the 2010 law in question has at long last opened its health care exchanges to the public.

Benefits advisers for government contractors say employees will be impacted in the way of retirement savings and more.

The degree of success will be how well the industry does in solving the “annuity puzzle.”

Greg Kasten’s outside-the-box thinking and success rate at getting employees truly on track for retirement made him the ideal candidate for this year’s award.