Investment Instruments

ING's Retirement division announced today that it has launched the next generation of its retirement health reimbursement arrangement — the ING Health Reserve Account (ING HRA) — to help state and local governments fund their employees' future health care expenses on a tax-favored basis.

The two-week plunge in stock prices is signaling economic anxiety, but it's also compounding the problem: Lower stock prices are shrinking Americans' wealth, rattling their confidence and making them less inclined to spend. And employers may become even slower to hire.

New disclosure requirements have prompted the Principal Financial Group to launch a new Web feature that will help plan sponsor clients and their financial professionals comply with new disclosure rules.

What relief rally? Hope that the stock market would surge on news of Washington's debt ceiling deal has given way to pessimism.

Cerulli Associates has identified six niche segments of the retirement planning space that it says are experiencing burgeoning growth and present asset-gathering opportunities for advisors.

The debtpocalypse is nigh. But, hey, at least we’re going to have NFL football.