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The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College challenges some of the assumptions it finds in the proposed SAFE Act.

The decision puts on hold plans by the firms to start the first non-transparent ETFs.

In 2013, it says, one-third of retirees received some retirement income from plan-sponsored assets, either their own or a spouses. In 1975, the rate was 21 percent.

The number of public pensions that have put Pimco on watch or are expected to do so keeps growing.

Equities extended their losses after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said there are signs the euro-areas economic growth is slowing and policy makers must lift inflation from an excessively low level.

Strategies for drawing down lump-sum accounts in retirement -- more important than ever in the 401(k) era -- have received little attention from policy makers.

A surprisingly powerful surge in hiring pushed unemployment to a six-year low of 5.9 percent in September as the U.S. labor market showed renewed vigor.

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider giving 401(k) participants more power to sue their plans over investments that impose excessive fees, accepting an appeal tied to a wave of suits against employers.