The SPARK Institute has asked the U.S. Department of Labor for an extension of the deadline when retirement plan sponsors are required to provide participant fee and investment disclosure materials to participants.

Professionally managed options continued to gain ground in 2012, with more than one-third of Vanguard plan participants investing in them.

Wall Street is recovering nearly all of an early loss as traders shrug off a rout in overseas markets.

House Speaker John Boehner says it is "inconceivable" that top White House officials didn't tell President Barack Obama once they learned the Internal Revenue Service had been targeting conservative political groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status.