The U.S. Supreme Court chose not to hear two cases brought by the 401(k) participants at Citigroup Inc. and The McGraw-Hill Cos. Inc.

As companies have slowly moved their retirement plans from defined benefit pensions over to defined contribution plans, thereby shifting the risk onto individuals, they have gotten away from offering insured products to help protect employee assets.

The number of individuals who used the Internet to research individual insurance or annuity products rose more than 60 percent in the past six years, according to new research by LIMRA.

Employers have started making matching contributions to their company defined contribution plans again.

Investors are turning to low-cost options more and more, according to Cerulli's latest release of its annual coverage of retail investor product use in the U.S.

Most households that have between $100,000 and $500,000 in household investable assets have not developed a formal plan or spoken to an advisor.

The new educational certificate is aimed at retirement plan professionals interested in learning more about employee stock ownership plans.

When talking about the benefits of index funds vs. managed funds, is one type of fund better than the other, or can they coexist?