Defined-contribution plans are adding self-directed brokerage accounts as a way of giving participants more choices even as some plans reduce the number of core investment options.
The oldest baby boomers, many of whom are expecting to retire soon, will likely not have enough money to carry them through their twilight years.
A Kirkland financial planner who looted her clients' investment accounts was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison by a federal judge who praised her for cooperating after she got caught.
Fear of market gyrations taking hold among affluent young investors; is the 'conservatism' embedded?
Axa also failed to use product comparisons that lower the surrender and death benefit value by the investment fund charges when considering hypothetical rates of return.
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The guru of federal retirement policy has high hopes for one of his yet-to-be-approved retirement creations: the automatic IRA.
What to do while waiting for the participant advice rule to be finalized.
The Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor will soon be taking steps to make it easier for companies to offer “automatic annuities” in 401(k) plans, Treasury senior adviser Mark Iwry said today.
Some top retirement gurus are in the process of developing proposals that could make annuity products a crucial part of millions of Americans' retirement plans.
New York Life Insurance Co. said today that John Kim, president and chief executive of the company's investment management arm, will become chief investment officer at the end of the year.
Economists heralded FedEx Corp.'s decision to restore its matching contribution to employees' 401(k) plans as a sign that the recession is ending, but surveys show that less than half of the firms that reduced or suspended plan matches in recent years have restored them.
In a move into the retirement income market, Barclays Bank PLC on Sept. 1 will launch two structured-note products designed to provide income over 15- to 30-year time spans.
As Congress heads toward its summer recess, it looks unlikely that legislators will make progress any time soon on the estate tax. That leaves financial planners and their clients in the lurch.
Western National Life Insurance Co., jumped back into the indexed-annuity market last week after more than 18 months on the sidelines.
The resignation of AIG chairman Harvey Golub may have come abruptly on Wednesday evening -- but it came as no big surprise.
The controversial CEO is set to become the insurer's longest-serving chief executive officer since the company's near-collapse in 2008
Bank holding companies' income from annuity sales plummeted in the first quarter, as the annuities lost their appeal during the stock market recovery.
Worried that new suitability rules for annuities will lead to conflicts between insurers and broker-dealers, an annuity advocacy organization has formed a working group of both parties to work out a solution.
