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Employers are worried the proposed federal requirements on employee benefits communication could cause greater financial stress on businesses by demanding additional administrative work in an effort to remain compliant, says HighRoads, a benefits management and Employee Retirement Income Security Act compliance firm.

Getting tough on wellness, fired for not wearing a Speedo, and why Joe You Lie Wilson feels vindicated these days.

If markets continue to be volatile after Standard & Poors downgrade of U.S. debt to Double-A+, pension funds will attempt to minimize their losses and buy bonds, says Brett Goldstein, president of The Pension Department in Plainview, N.Y.

Does your retirement plan practice focus mostly on for-profit businesses? If so, you may be missing out on a growing niche—not-for-profit organizations.

New disclosure requirements have prompted the Principal Financial Group to launch a new Web feature that will help plan sponsor clients and their financial professionals comply with new disclosure rules.

Statistics from HighRoads’ latest industry survey on open enrollment reveals 71 percent of respondents conduct passive versus active enrollment practices, therefore enabling employees to automatically renew most of their own plans.

On the same day Phyllis Borzi, DOL Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security Administration, testified before Congress, Dale Brown, president and CEO of the Financial Services Institute, released a blunt statement on the DOL's proposed fiduciary rule, calling it troubling that we have reached this point in the process, and...

Lawmakers told Phyllis Borzi, head of the Department of Labors Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) on Tuesday, to repropose the agency's controversial regulation amending the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), because the definition offered is too broad and because EBSA failed to examine the...