Retirement

The percentage of baby boomers that are confident in their financial preparations for retirement has declined over the past three years, according to the Insured Retirement Institute, and most do not expect their financial situations to improve in the next five years.

The Chamber of Commerce’s 7th annual capital markets summit in Washington, D.C., brought together leaders from the business community, the public policy sector and government to examine the state of financial regulatory reform and address challenges facing U.S. and global markets.

How to correct plan problems that surface after you get them in house.

With two daughters in college, The Principal Financial's Aaron Friedman has come to appreciate that the three “R’s” continue into higher education. The traditional readin’, ‘rightin’, and ‘rithmatic, carry forward, but he's realized lately that a fourth “R” applies — an evolution with private higher ed in “R”etirement planning.

Benefit industry backlash awaits today's presentation of President Obama's proposal to limit IRA and DC plan accumulations.

Robert C. Lawton offers participant age guidelines to aid this decision.

A series of ground-breaking educational events in major markets providing financial professionals with strategies to capitalize on opportunities in the multi-billion dollar micro- to small-plan retirement market.

So I came across this article in Wired’s Good Design is Good Business that says: “A mix of factors, ranging from commoditization to evaporating barriers to competition, are conspiring to push design to the fore of business thinking”

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation announced a new proposal that will reverse its 2009 proposal and thereby reform and reduce reporting requirements for more than 90% of companies and pension plans.

As HR/Payroll outsourcers look to continue to attract more and in some cases smaller businesses to their outsourced model they increasingly look to build data integration with third party systems to gain efficiencies and drive down costs. Thus the intersection between Human Resource/ Payroll software and retirement services recordkeeping software (plan administration) is heating up.