Retirement benefits

The financial planning tool gives participants mobile access to their mutual fund retirement accounts and offers a series of features that make retirement planning easier.

A comprehensive guide to how these provisions affect employees' retirement plannings from organizations of all sizes.

Defined contribution plan participants will seriously diminish their retirement savings if they prematurely cash out all or part of their 401(k) savings account balances.

If the court ends up making this choice, intended family members may lose out — all for want of filling out a one-page form.

While recessions are almost impossible to predict, employers can plan for the financial impact caused by workforce adjustments that inevitably happen every year.

Early retirement is on the rise during the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s how employers can support employees and offset talent loss.

Financial practitioner Aaron Brown takes a look at the logic behind modern day 401(k) plans.

The carrier will take a charge of as much as $3.3 billion to cover the costs of early retirement and voluntary separation plans for employees, as it scales back operations amid a plunge in travel.

A rise in equity and bond markets has fueled a partial bounce back in corporate pensions, according to data from Willis Towers Watson.

Amid economic uncertainty of the pandemic and following the passage of the SECURE Act, momentum could be building for retirement income in workplace plans.

Early retirement has been a key driver in the decline in labor-force participation due to COVID-19.

Transparency around compensation is key in closing the gender pay gap, and thus the retirement income gap for the future, as it creates accountability for employers and trust with employees.

The pandemic is affecting one of the best perks of workplace retirement-savings plans: company matches to employee 401(k) contributions.

Years from now, terminated employees may discover they have less income in retirement due to an automatic rollover or automatic cash-out from a previous employer.

An early look at the impact from the economic shutdown was not as bad as feared, while industry insiders see opportunities for advisers and sponsors to talk up the value of retirement and emergency savings.

Americans’ retirement savings are increasingly threatened by disabilities that temporarily keep employees out of work by turning to hardship withdrawals from retirement plans.

The Department of Labor issued a new rule that allows companies to distribute retirement benefit information electronically.

The lack of seamless plan-to-plan asset portability prevents participants from easily moving and consolidating their 401(k) savings, leaving them open to the temptation to prematurely cash out their 401(k) accounts from prior employers’ plans.

Many employees are not in a financial position to deal with an emergency medical crisis like the current pandemic and it’s hurting their retirement.

The majority of U.S. workers do not have enough savings to help them in the event of a medical emergency and often turn to their retirement funds for help.