The Postal Service will pay a $15,000 retirement incentive to employees who retire, retire early or leave service voluntarily by the beginning of 2013.
The National Association of Plan Advisors and The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries have launched a new Web portal to inform and connect retirement plan advisors.
For the 100 largest public employee-retirement systems in the country, total holdings and investments totaled $2.7 trillion in the second quarter of 2012, a decrease of 1.7 percent from $2.8 trillion last quarter, according to new data by the U.S. Census Bureau.