A U.S. District judge in the Southern District of Iowa has signed off on a settlement agreement between Principal Financial and participants in its Select Savings Plan for Employees and the Select Savings Plan for Individual Field defined contribution plans.

Small business owners are feeling better about the direction of the economy.

Vertical Management Systems, Inc. has announced that it is partnering with Envestnet | Retirement Solutions to offer end-to-end retirement recordkeeping services to advisors.

Opponents of the Department of Labors proposed fiduciary rule have been threatening for months to use the appropriations process to defund the DOL's new fiduciary standard. Now the showdown is coming.