Retirement benefits

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.

Firms should embrace technology, target communication efforts and help younger employees pick the right health plan.

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.

Taxation of retirement plan distributions and Social Security benefits remains unchanged under the new tax law, but retirees are likely to see an increase in after-tax income.

The cake maker is providing hourly employees with a cash reward, a 401(k) contribution and a year’s supply of its products.

The proposed budget includes a provision that would give Medicare recipients the option to contribute to a health savings account, which would offer various tax 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.

Workers who are looking for new investments may want to invest in small-cap dividend payers,

The cake maker is providing hourly employees with a cash reward, a 401(k) contribution and a year’s supply of its products.

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

Raising the payroll tax is the easy way (in theory); here are other solutions for funding the Social Security shortfall.

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.