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Although one of the goals of ERISA was to provide plan participants with a window into how their money is being spent, the new Short Form 5500 has had the opposite effect.

ERISA itself cannot take all the blame for the decrease in DB coverage, but it certainly should share some of it.

Two retirement industry vets are promoting the idea of overhauling the nation's piecemeal approach to DC plans.

Fiduciaries have a duty to find missing plan participants but thats not always as easy as it may seem.

Workers who leave jobs with the federal government transferred $10 billion last year out of the Thrift Savings Plan.

President Barack Obama says U.S. corporations that adopt foreign addresses to avoid taxes are unpatriotic. His own administration helped one $20 billion American company do just that.

Concern that the future of the federal safety net for seniors is precarious and the ubiquity of 401(k)s are prompting those born from 1979 to 1996 to get an earlier start on saving than prior generations, according to a report from the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies.

Although some brokers may be intimidated by stepping into uncharted benefits territory, for others its an opportunity to expand their business and their own knowledge and experience.