Defined Contribution

The never-ending speculation about when the Department of Labor might finally issue a new fiduciary standard came into play once again this week at the 2014 SPARK Institute conference.

Doing a better job with communication adds costs in a thin-margin business (already) under increasing fee pressure. But it can also mean higher savings rates and more assets for providers to manage.

With Republicans taking control of the Senate in January, Utahs Orrin Hatch is expected to become chairman of the Finance Committee, the powerful arm that oversees retirement policy in the Senate.

Investors submitted bids for $5.54 trillion of government debt at auctions this year, or three times the amount sold.

One-quarter of the largest private defined benefit funds now deploy ETFs, and adoption rates are even higher with public defined benefit funds and endowments.

The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College challenges some of the assumptions it finds in the proposed SAFE Act.