Retirement

The Newport Group announced the launch of a major new client service center in Dallas

Kaiser Health News notes that the Affordable Care Act starts to exert a noticeable impact on the Medicare Part D’s doughnut hole.

"After spending a significant amount of time reacting to market conditions, the faltering economy, and grappling with new legislation and regulations, plan sponsors are returning their focus to improving their DC plans."

of the 14.8 percent of companies that suspended matching contributions in the last three years in the last three years, 39.3 percent have restored them and 37.8 percent are planning to restore them within the next six months.

Retirees still require a large savings to cover out-of-pocket health expenses in retirement, despite the reduced retirement health costs the new health reform law brings, according to a nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute report.

Based on a new Profit Sharing/401k Council of America survey, 403(b) plan sponsors took significant steps toward managing their plans for the last three years, even in this down economy and new regulations.