EPIs Retirement Inequality Chartbook offers dozens of charts that look at retirement preparedness and outcomes by income, race and ethnicity, education, gender and marital status. Its conclusion? The 401(k) revolution created a few big winners and many losers.

According to Cogent Researchs Advisor Touchpoints study, advisors receive an average of 126 contacts per month from product manufacturers.

Forty-two percent of institutions surveyed say they already use an advisor or consultant, a trend that is expected to grow by 10 percent over the next year.

Labor Day was established more than 100 years ago and a lot has changed about our economy in the decades since, most of it good, but some of it perhaps less so.