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The U.S. Labor Department should try to make the regulations governing the security of information at retirement plans and health benefits plans as similar as possible, and leave room for technology changes.

Financial planners should work Medicare into their year-end planning

No CLASS, fiduciary reboot, and how the flu is infecting employers profits.

The economy will likely expand this fall at a weak pace, but the risks are rising of another recession, a private research group says.

Retirement plans exist to provide earnings streams to retirees, but knowing how to pensionize retirement savings is largely a foreign concept to most workers.

Twenty-seven percent of boomers surveyed in August said they were indifferent about enrolling in Medicare, while 26% said they were nervous and 14% said they were overwhelmed.

A new study delivered to lawmakers on the congressional debt panel says the government could save more than $125 billion on medical care for the most frail Medicare and Medicaid patients.

Investors flocked to stable value funds in an effort to smooth volatility experienced in August, apparently seeing them as a higher-yielding alternative to money markets.