The city of Seattle, Washington will have the first city-facilitated retirement savings plan administered by an outside private party in the country.

Increased interest from institutional investors is driving the increasethanks in part to the lower fees charged by CITs.

Senator Patty Murray, D-Washington, has questioned new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Brenda Fitzgeralds over financial holdings that could prevent her from talking about cancer and prescription drug monitoring programs.

According to a New York Times/ProPublica report, Americans may be overpaying for as much as one in every 10 prescriptions by using their insurance instead of seeking out an alternate source and paying cash.

Retirement plan sponsors aren't happy with their advisors.

The absence of a financial cushion to fall back on39 percent of older women have no retirement savings at allmeans they pretty much take what job they can get, even a low-paying one.

San Diego is betting on converting plain old tourism into medical tourism, hoping to attract patients to its hospitals with the citys other attractions serving as icing on the cake, so to speak.

According to a recent study, 61 percent of employers plan to replace up to 30 percent of their permanent positions with freelancers, gig workers and independent contractors in the next year.