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The federal agency that insures pensions for one in seven Americans ran the largest deficit last year in its 37-year history.

Proposed changes to the military retirement system have made many men and women in uniform rethink their government benefits. A

The U.S. Department of Labors Employee Benefits Security Administration created a new consumer assistance Web page that provides easy access to information and allows users to submit questions and complaints about health and retirement plans electronically.

Any time youre dealing with millions of data points, youre bound to find some outliers. The Warren Buffets of household income, the Yao Mings of adult height, the Beatles. Its where we find the exceptional, the interesting, and the weird.

Employers need to act now to get younger employees interested in saving for retirement via defined-contribution plans, according to a new study by Northern Trust.

As the U.S. retirement plan industry prepares for new cost disclosures in 2012, heres a simple fact to remember: The surest and quickest way to reduce participants all-in cost of retirement plan ownership is to add index funds to the menu.

Total U.S. money market mutual fund assets rose $16.46 billion to $2.639 trillion for the week that ended Wednesday, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.

Surging stock prices in October weren't enough to entice mutual fund investors back into the market. Instead, bonds continued to hold appeal.