Investment Instruments

A new study by Prudential shows that many companies are turning to third party administrators to outsource their benefits administration.

The company also wants union approval to drop its traditional pension plans, which cover 130,000 employees and retirees. It would replace them with 401(k)-type plans under which the company contributes to workers' retirement accounts.

Despite the best of intentions, retirees tend to make the same money mistakes over and over and over again. But eventually you're going to run into trouble if you don't break the pattern of financial neglect. The money simply may not hold up in the long run.

Fidelity Investments has launched a new video series to help pension plan participants better understand their benefits as part of their overall retirement plan.

Participants in public school 403(b) plans will get some of the same disclosure information and protection as their 401(k) counterparts, thanks to new recommended transparency standards announced Wednesday.

Prudential's Retirement wing will service Florida's U.S. Epperson Underwriting Company, the Auto Club of New York and New Orleans-based Energy Partners.

More than half of Americans plan to reduce debt and increase savings in 2012, according to a survey by TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. To help consumers along, the company came up with its top five financial strategies for the new year.

The federal pension-insurance agency filed $91 million in liens against American Airlines property in a bid to pressure the company to save its retirement plans instead of dumping the obligations on the agency.