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Record keeper Empower jumps into HSA market, as Fidelity expands
Some view an enhanced participant experience as the "next battleground" for retirement plan record keepers.
Hiring freeze and budget cuts impact Social Security claims
Despite longer waits and declining service, checks are safe - for now.
Tips for managing clients’ health care expenses in retirement
Financial advisers should incorporate health care planning into their practices.
Change in Washington shouldn’t include cutting tax deferrals
Removing the tax savings element of workplace retirement plans would surely make saving less appealing.
How taxpayers hurt themselves with nondeductible IRA contributions
There's only one way to ensure you get the full tax benefit of those contributions.
Act fast to Trump-proof your retirement strategy
History shows that tax cuts often don't stick.
Morgan Stanley eliminating commissions, finder’s fees in 401(k) plans
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is eliminating commission payments and finder’s fees for its advisers servicing 401(k) plans, shifting…
Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley: A tale of two fiduciary 401(k) business models
Each firm uses an approach that mitigates risk, but some observers say they're more for show than potential problem solving
Could you be saving too much for retirement?
A new book cautions against paying down debt too aggressively, telling readers to build up their rainy day savings instead.
Trumpcare may put a stop to your plans for early retirement
The health-care overhaul will likely make it more expensive for Americans to retire before they're eligible for Medicare.
Bipartisan bill seeks to ease hurdle for small-business retirement plans
Measure directs Labor and Treasury Departments to allow employers and sole-proprietors participating in similar retirement plans to file a single aggregated Form 5500.
Tax cut optimism may be overblown
Wall Street Journal columnist notes health care resolution must come first, making any tax reform more distant.
Taxpayers only hurting themselves by not mentioning their nondeductible IRA contributions
There's only one way to ensure they get the full tax benefit of those contributions.
Retirement market needs 401(k) generalists, not just specialists: execs
Generalist 401(k) advisers, or those who don’t specialize in retirement plan business, are essential to a well-functioning retirement…
401(k) plan sponsors want financial advisers to better know their businesses
Employers sponsoring 401(k) plans expect advisers to challenge assumptions, know their businesses inside and out.
Tax reform could be ‘way worse’ for retirement industry than Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule: Graff
Limits could be placed on 401(k) contributions as a way to help pay for broad corporate and individual tax cuts, according to Brian Graff, head of the National Association of Plan Advisors.
Faltering congressional support for auto-IRAs leaves legislation up to states
Auto-IRA programs have been enacted in five states that would cover an estimated 10.4 million workers.
Large advisory shops build custom target-date funds
The firms are able to deliver the funds at low cost to small 401(k) plans, but some question if there's a potential conflict involved in recommending proprietary funds.
Despite uncertainty, Department of Labor fiduciary rule upends 401(k) biz
Market shifts will largely remain intact in the event the regulation is amended or scrapped, and non-specialists are adjusting.
Retirement gets a deeper dive
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