The force of the financial advisory field is expected to decline 8 percent by year-end 2017.

A new government study says that federal health care and retirement programs threaten to overwhelm the federal budget and harm the economy in coming decades unless Washington finds the political will to restrain their inexorable growth.

The salary range is $75,000 to $90,000 per year.

Retirement plan providers are seeing a rise in sponsors shopping their defined contribution plans.