A savings-to-employment income ratio can help clients take control of their retirement planningand strengthen your business in the process

Factory workers at General Motors have overwhelmingly approved a new four-year contract with the company that includes profit-sharing instead of raises for most workers and promises thousands of new jobs.

These are not the best of times for the great U.S. mutual fund industry.

Raising prospects for a major election-year ruling, the Obama administration launched its Supreme Court defense of its landmark health care overhaul Wednesday, appealing what it called a "fundamentally flawed" appeals court decision that declared the law's central provision unconstitutional.

The Justice Department is joining calls by states and a business group for prompt Supreme Court review of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

A large number of financial professionals plan to ramp up their retirement income planning practices over the next few years, according to a new study by the Principal Financial Group.

I get tired of reiterating studies on the shortfall between pre-retirement preparedness and post-retirement reality. But that doesnt mean workers should ignore the message; it just means they should filter the noise.

Due to an economic crisis that hasnt slowed down, more attention is on the financial strength of insurers. A new LIMRA study finds that more than a quarter of producers consider the financial strength of an insurer one of the two most important factors in 2011.