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The Principal is now offering a small plan market tool kit that will help financial professionals get into the growing small plan market and build strong practices with diversified revenue streams.

Pensions improve the quality of Californias public education system and reduce turnover costs, according to a report issued by the National Institute on Retirement Security.

Mercers US Outsourcing business has rolled out Financial Engines Income+ to its defined contribution plan client base.

Rhode Island is ground zero for pension reform right now. The state, which has found itself with an unfunded pension liability of between $7 billion and $9 billion, has proposed a hybrid defined benefit/defined contribution plan to reform its retirement system.

Social Security not only shouldn't be cut as part of the United States debt reduction measures, but, according to Merton Bernstein, an expert on Social Security and the Walter D. Coles Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, it wouldnt take much to ensure Social Securitys viability 75 years...

Our seventh annual competition features a few surprises, a lot of stalwarts and more broker votes than ever before.