Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company has introduced a new retirement income solution for bank-affiliated broker/dealers, called Great-West SecureFoundation Smart Future.
Alliance Benefit Group has asked the Department of Labor to clarify certain aspects of the new fee and expense disclosure regulations slated to go into effect this summer.
Under ERISA, plan sponsors are allowed to hire investment advisors as co-fiduciaries. Carlos Panksep of the Centre forFiduciary Excellence, LLC, demonstrates how to conduct a fiduciary assessment of your investment advisor.
The nations state and local public employee retirement systems had $2.7 trillion in total cash and investment holdings in 2010, a 10.6 percent increase from 2009.
The GAO, sensing the role that financial literacy plays in the health and stability of families, has identified more than a dozen government programs providing that education.