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The DOLs Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans will host a symposium exploring key trends affecting sponsor liability and the massive movements of cash from employer-sponsored programs to individual accounts.

Questions are raised about opacity, risk and the often enormous fees guaranteed to fund managers no matter how they perform.

As the cost of assisted living facilities and nursing homes keeps rising, the option of bringing long-term care services into the home keeps getting more attractive.

A study by law firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan suggests advisors may not want to immediately settle when regulators bring charges.

About 30 percent of sponsors surveyed by Greenwald & Associates said a new definition of fiduciary would make them at least somewhat likely to eliminate current retirement plans.

Illinois government workers won a temporary halt to a 2013 law passed to fix the states $100 billion pension shortfall while they fight it in court.