Retirement

Here's a modest proposal that wont cost very much and has enormous potential benefits: Raise the ceiling on contributions to individual retirement accounts (IRAs), 401(k)s and other tax-deferred retirement-savings accounts.

Companies with fewer than 100 workers employ 36 percent of the U.S. workforce, or about 42 million people, but many of those employees don't get access to a retirement plan.

For all the industry debate over the DOL fiduciary rule, its necessity, or opposition to it, never emerged as a household issue, one industry expert says, explaining why any bills to kill the rule will move slowly.

Of the millennial leaders polled, 44 percent say they can see themselves staying with a single employer for more than 15 years.

How can retirement plan sponsors and participants know the right answers if they dont ask the right questions?

Conversations with employers and analysis of employee behaviors have led to expectations of the following 7 chief trends in workplace benefits that Fidelity says we might see in 2017.