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Workers today are more likely to receive retirement income from private-sector retirement plans than they were before the passage of ERISA in 1974, according to a report by the Investment Company Institute.

Employers have been killing off defined pension plans for years now. But terminating one isn't as easy as simply closing it down.

Justices ask how they can stay out of interpreting ERISA plan terms.

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.