The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration announced on June 30 that it is removing some interpretive bulletins that had been relevant to administering retirement plans but ...

The nominee to serve as Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the U.S. Department of Treasury, a post that is a key principal in the retirement and tax policy domain, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate ...

Beyond that, when you look inside the numbers of the Voya survey you see that just 17% of participants considered themselves VERY prepared — and only 27% of plan sponsors characterized their ...

Ruth is survived by her brother George Flint and his wife Darlene, of Hebron, NY; her brother Carl Flint, of Cambridge, NY; her brother Jim Flint and his wife Barb, of West Rutland, VT; and her sister ...

U.S. insurance carriers are accelerating their shift toward retirement income solutions and platform innovation as economic uncertainty grows says Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s (GSAM) in its annual ...

In a session held in the President’s Room just off the Senate floor in the U.S. Capitol, members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on June 26 approved the nomination ...

Social Security’s 90th birthday is this year, Walker notes, and remains the “cornerstone of economic security in the United States” and “the backbone of economic security” in our country. Despite that ...

Participant education is an ongoing concern for plan sponsors – including how one can cut through the clutter and engage employees, even for a few minutes, with understanding about their benefits and ...

Processes are necessary for a retirement plan professional to serve clients as well as participants and beneficiaries. Industry experts recently offered ideas on training that improves processes, why ...

State Senator Franklin Foil (R-Baton Rouge) introduced Senate Resolution (SR) 176, a statement intended to recognize the retirement concerns of American workers and “urge efforts to improve retirement ...

Empower Retirement recently announced that it will soon allow its 19 million retirement plan participants to invest in private markets, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is seeking answers from CEO ...

Established in 1997 as the Educator’s Award, the award was renamed in 2023 in memoriam of Thomas J. Finnegan III, the first ...