Retirement plan participants familiar with annuities overwhelmingly favor them for their savings strategy that is, the few who know what annuities are.

Be careful when using retirement income calculators: These income projection tools, which are becoming default features on recordkeeping and retail advisory platforms, generate wildly varying interpretations, say analysts at Corporate Insight.

Automatically enrolling employees in 401(k) plans can be a key to expanding access to retirement savings, a SHRM study finds, though companies aren't using it as much as they could.

Most executives think millennials are ready for top spots, according to a survey by Robert Half.