Employees want their employers to get active about upping employee participation in defined contribution retirement plans. Employers? Not so much.

The drive to merge or acquire hasnt slacked off among registered investment advisory firms, but the push to align with another organization should be governed by a firms strategic objectives if its to pay off.

Investors not only dont know whether their financial advisors are fiduciaries, theyre not even sure what a fiduciary is.

Slicing and dicing the body of American workers has come up with a new demographic: the high-net-worker, with a high income and spending habits to match, an apparently inexhaustible appetite for work and scorn for the very idea of retirement.

Not only do we need a new fiduciary standard, we need one thats digitally inclined.

Rising income inequality is a byproduct of pension reform actions that have made people rely on defined contribution plans rather than defined benefit plans.

Boomers and GenXers alike face retirement with misgivings, although Gen Xers are far more despairing of even having a retirement in which they can pursue their own interests.

Advisors are divided on the new fiduciary rule proposed by the Department of Labor.