Retirement benefits

Congress can help by creating a law that will enable states and local governments to lower the benefits they promise their employees.

Although market volatility makes stocks a risky investment option, retirement investors should continue to hold stocks in their portfolio.

The season is a great time to catch up on the latest thinking and best practices. Here are the editors’ must-read picks.

In a tough economic climate, Baltimore’s Gilman School went the extra mile to prepare its employees for retirement and buying a first home.

Advisers and plan sponsors must follow a diligent routine to avoid losing the farm, says columnist John Ludwig, who shares 3 mid-year duties to consider.

Plan sponsors can benefit from the firm’s new FidelityConnect website, which provides a snapshot of every corporate retirement plan that is recordkept by Fidelity.

Although active investment strategies remain popular, passive investment options are attracting retirement planners with lower fees and by beating benchmarks.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension fund, named Marcie Frost, 51, as its new chief executive officer.

Most plan sponsors are falling short when it comes to managing their RFP process, says adviser Robert Lawton.

Eliminating the tax maximum would fix much of the program's shortfall, but it could also bring unintended consequences.

Plan sponsors can benefit from the firm’s new FidelityConnect website, which provides a snapshot of every corporate retirement plan that is recordkept by Fidelity.

The top cities for elders who plan to work past their retirement age are ranked according to factors such as average effective tax rate and senior unemployment rate.

Most investors, including wealthy ones, end up better off with a mix of assets in traditional and Roth accounts, a new study finds.

The top cities for elders who plan to work past their retirement age are ranked according to factors such as average effective tax rate and senior unemployment rate.

Class action suit against Fujitsu Technology and Business of America Inc., alleges a cornucopia of fiduciary breaches tied to excessive fees, record keeping, and the components of the company's target-date funds. The case, and several like it in the past year, may be harbingers of a new cycle of 401(k)-gone-bad litigation, this time targeting ever-smaller retirement plans.

Although market volatility makes stocks a risky investment option, retirement investors should continue to hold stocks in their portfolio.

Although market volatility makes stocks a risky investment option, retirement investors should continue to hold stocks in their portfolio.

An upcoming compliance date for new SEC rules will affect plan sponsors; here’s what they need to know.

The goal is to help some 55 million employees with no access to workplace retirement plans.

The goal is to help some 55 million employees with no access to workplace retirement plans.