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South Koreas biggest pension funds are cutting holdings of local debt to buy stocks in the U.S. and Europe, saying the days when the Asian nation could be counted on to outperform developed markets are in the past.

CITs are arguably changing the retirement investment landscape because of an insistence on behalf of plans sponsors of all sizes, but particularly the largest, to keep their exposure to management fees in control.

Orange County, Californias $11.5 billion pension is putting together a fund open to smaller retirement plans to give them access to private-equity investments at a lower cost.

Average public employees in eight states are pension "millionaires"; average replacement income 87 percent of final earnings, AEI study finds

Detroit will ask the judge to let it seek votes on a debt - reduction plan filed last month by emergency manager Kevyn Orr. That plan would reduce pensions to police officers, firefighters and other city employees.

For financial professionals who wish to prospect in the retirement plan market, the most valuable public data source is a Form 5500 that the U.S. Department of Labor requires plans to file annually.

Proponents, led by San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, delayed the measure until 2016 to improve its chances of passage.

Poorly structured policies implemented over the past few decades by states and cities are threatening retirement security for public school teachers, according to a new report published by Bellwether Education Partners.