Retirement Advisor

New regulations that are shifting the 403(b) market from highly individualized and retail-focused to one that is more efficient and institutionalized present new opportunities for advisors, third-party administrators (TPAs), and investment-only asset managers, according to new research by Cerulli Associates.

Bankers expect the number of mortgage foreclosures to accelerate over the next five years, according to a survey conducted for FICO by the Professional Risk Managers International Association.

The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries filed a letter with the U.S. Department of Labor asking that it modify the Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program as it applies to late deposits of elective deferrals under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

If you want to make a visual impact on clients about why retirement planning should be a priority, check out the site created by graphic artist Oto Godfrey to show how deeply in debt the federal government already is today, and may be in the future.

The top administrator of New Mexico's pension fund for government workers is stepping down to take a job with a retirement program in Iowa.

Stocks fell Friday, putting the market on track to end its worst quarter since the peak of the financial crisis.

Despite the economic downturn and a widely held belief that the country is heading into another recession, benefit plan participants are committed to saving money for retirement, according to the Mercer Workplace Survey.

Public sector employees prefer defined benefit pensions over 401(k)-type defined contribution individual accounts, according to a study released today by the National Institute on Retirement Security and Milliman Inc.