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Younger generations are saving more for retirement than their parents and grandparents, according to a new survey by TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.

The American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries and the Council of Independent 401(k) Recordkeepers sent a letter to the Department of Labor requesting it extend the applicability dates of fee disclosure regulations that affect both plan sponsors and plan participants.

In 2009, more than 7,500 401(k) plans were terminated in the large plan market, forever doomed to carry cash boxes and locks tied to chains around their ghastly visages for eternity.

The United Food and Commercial Workers local unions and Kroger Company have agreed to improve and secure pension funds for more than 170,000 retired and active Kroger workers.

Wells Fargo & Co. announced it is buying EverKey Global Partners, an investment boutique that offers global equity strategies to institutional clients.

The Principal Financial Group has created the ERISA 404(a) Participant Disclosure Regulation Resource Center to help employers prepare for the new participant disclosure regulations that will take effect in May 2012.

In a letter to the Federal Insurance Office today, the Insured Retirement Institute encouraged the FIO to focus on the insurance regulatory system in the context of the current state of retirement savings in America and the need for consumers to insure against the risk of outliving their assets as...

Perhaps, after its all said and done, the end of the Mayan Calendar the Year 2012 will not mark the end of civilization as we know it. Maybe it just will just mark the beginning of the end of overpriced 401*(k) service providers.