Plan sponsors who receive the dreaded DOL investigatory letter need to understand their options - and know that they must respond.

U.S. industrial production fell in August by the largest amount in more than three years as factories produced fewer cars and other manufactured goods and Hurricane Isaac triggered shutdowns along the Gulf Coast.

UnitedHealth Group, the health insurance company, will replace Kraft Foods in the Dow Jones industrial average, the most widely known barometer of the American stock market.

Private employers spent 3.5 percent of total compensation to employees for their retirement and savings benefit costs in June, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.