A new ING U.S. study suggests that nearly three-quarters of investors who use target date funds feel more secure about their long-term financial future.

ASPPA CEO Brian Graff lends the organization's support to a congressional resolution calling for stronger federal tax incentives for retirement planning.

American Airlines has a bigger issue than Alec Baldwin's nasty tweets. Dropping its pension plan and laying off 13,000 employees creates some bad optics.

The fourth annual comprehensive overview of the ways non-profits are managing their retirement plans has been announced, with the PSCA and Principal Financial Group teaming up for their yearly 403(b) Plan Survey; a March deadline has been set for input.

Securian Financial Group recognized its employees' role in a 25 percent earnings growth in 2011 by making a 9-percent salary profit-sharing distribution to their 401(k) accounts.

Brian H. Graff, executive director and CEO of ASPPA, calls President Obama's proposed 2013 budget "a bad proposal based on bad math," especially when it comes to encouraging participation in small businesses' 401(k) plans.

In the second year of aggressive recruiting, New York Life has announced that it hopes to hire as many as 3,700 new financial and retirement professionals, with a special focus on hiring women and those who serve the country's growing ethnic markets.

Written sales for the retirement division in 2011 exceed $6 billion, a 13 percent increase over 2010 figures and making the year the highest for sales in the division's 65 years of existence.