Retirement benefits

Investment in global emerging market equities hit lowest levels since the end of 2008.

International investors taking note of “bitcoins” crypto-currency.

After years of attention to employee empowerment, a new study cites the need for more direct forms of intervention.

Planning for this danger is not a one-time process, since the risk never goes away.

Never before have there been so many investment options for retirement savings.

One year later, 408(b)(2) retirement disclosure regulations are not exactly reverberating through the industry.

Chad Parks and Andrew Meadows of The Online 401(k) make it their mission to address America’s retirement problem.

EBA’s new retirement columnist John Ludwig on how advisers must be prepared for the Department of Labor to knock on their client’s doors.

Five action steps recommended at pension summit.

Both genders trying to play catch-up on savings. Analysis also shows significant differences in attitudes across age bands.

Lack of plan sponsorship at work cited.

Five reasons plan sponsors seek to keep QDIA selections current.

The nation’s largest pension fund and health insurer WellPoint Inc. cut medical costs 19% by capping the price of some surgeries, in the latest sign payers are taking a tougher line against rising hospital claims.

Website and phone interaction among problem areas

Regulators outline ways of meeting fiduciary responsibilities

As plan sponsors continue to work through Affordable Care Act compliance, there has been some confusion about what types of plans are being sponsored. Here’s a look at the basics of these plans.

PricewaterhouseCoopers released results of an employee financial wellness study this week and found that 36% of employees in the generation born in the early ’60s through early ’80s say they’re likely to tap into their retirement savings.

It’s no secret that target-date funds have grown in popularity. A new Vanguard study, How America Saves, shows that 27% of plan participants were invested in single target-date funds at year-end 2012 and 51% of all participants use target-date funds. Also, 84% of sponsors offer target date funds, up 45% compared with 2007.

Position a nod to growth in broker-dealer channel.

The scaling down of the Fed's quantitative easing program could incent bond fund holders to liquidate their holdings and look for other more promising investments.