The Labor Department is increasing payouts for civil penalties related to retirement plans.
Mistakes in reported earnings can reduce future benefits.
The newly developed video game seizes on the concept of gamification to improve participant behavior regarding retirement savings.
Legislation calls for employers with 10 or more employees that do not offer retirement plans to open IRAs for employees and contribute 50 cents per hour worked per employee.
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Low interest rates and demographic trends continue to bolster indexed annuity sales. These dynamics also pushed deferred income annuities to their best all-time sales quarter.
Some insurers are turning away from L-share variable annuities as appetite wanes among broker-dealers.
Income inequality changing how young Americans have families.
Such a strategy is meant to reduce the appearance of a conflict of interest when using commission products in retirement accounts.
Such a strategy would aim at levelizing compensation, thereby dodging additional compliance requirements and litigation risk.
The collaboration focuses on the compliance confusion among advisers and broker-dealers caused by the DOL's fiduciary rule.
New study shows ongoing bills impede savings and boost baby boomers' retirement income needs.
Ever since Congress created Roth accounts, savers have faced this quandary. Now new research answers the question.
The adviser allegedly hid improper annuity exchanges from his clients and broker-dealers in part by falsifying documents and misrepresenting some of the annuity features.
Life insurance and annuity carriers are focused on growing distribution through brokers. Direct-to-consumer sales, though, reign king.
Improving credit scores might entice households to start borrowing more
Market Synergy's lawsuit, one of several targeting the Labor Department regulation, is set for Aug. 24 in a Kansas district court.
The party is set to endorse a levy on securities sales and to defend the DOL fiduciary rule when it meets at its national convention in Philadelphia later this month.
The rule changes will likely result in dramatically higher fees for many smaller clients, and one bond shop is already reacting.
Clients also have heightened concerns about securing the personal data of their employees.
