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Thirty-nine percent of those surveyed said that they plan to make changes to their employee benefit programs because of the DOMA decision earlier this year.

A companys detailed paper trail saved it from a lawsuit and subsequent appeal by former union employees who felt they were denied promised retirement benefits, a court has ruled.

Todays Department of Labor is the most aggressive in years and one of its biggest initiatives imposing the fiduciary standard on broker-dealers will flood the market with hundreds, if not thousands, of new RIAs.

Defined contribution plans have been slow to move into alternative investments but many of the nations largest pension funds are investing billions of dollars in alts and so should you.

More than 30 lawsuits have been filed against 401(k) plan sponsors in the past few years, leaving little doubt that the retirement field remains strewn with legal landmines.

Politics aside, tax reform is coming and it could well mean an overhaul of the pension system including a government takeover.

Despite all the noise about fees and investment performance, the key metric of every retirement plan should be retirement readiness.

The EBSA doesnt agree but an audit by the Office of Inspector General concluded the agency is not providing enough oversight of ERISA retirement plans that invest in alternative investments.