Fidelity Investments has increased the availability of institutional share classes and is adding new index funds.

Investors are more concerned about health care costs and saving for retirement than their advisors may realize, study from Jefferson National shows.

Julio Portalatin, CEO of consultant Mercer, is again speaking out against premium increases for the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. that went into effect with the passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.

Only 38 percent of employers that offer a plan extend eligibility to their part-time workers, a Transamerica executive told attendees in a Senate hearing recently.

Many retirees wish they'd waited to claim Social Security till they were older, because health care costs are eating up their benefits, according to the third annual Nationwide Retirement Study.

But almost the same percentage say that doing so make is harder to keep up with their other financial obligations.

Forget the wellness plans and attempts to enhance company culture; employees want core benefits and better compensation.

Here are the proposals to help workers gain access to retirement plans, from a report by the Bipartisan Policy Centers Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings.