The Senate on July 1 passed its version of the budget, formerly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Since the Senate version is different from that passed by the House, it must be approved by the ...

ASPPA is sad to announce that an industry leader who broke new ground is no longer with us. Ruth Frew, ASPPA’s first female president, passed away on June 26. Ruth was born on Nov. 4, 1951, in ...

Massachusetts Secure Choice is closer to becoming more than a proposal. Both houses of the Bay State’s legislature on June 30 voted in favor of a measure that includes a provision that would create ...

The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration announced on June 30 that it is removing some interpretive bulletins that had been relevant to administering retirement plans but ...

Beyond that, when you look inside the numbers of the Voya survey you see that just 17% of participants considered themselves VERY prepared — and only 27% of plan sponsors characterized their ...

The nominee to serve as Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the U.S. Department of Treasury, a post that is a key principal in the retirement and tax policy domain, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate ...

Social Security’s 90th birthday is this year, Walker notes, and remains the “cornerstone of economic security in the United States” and “the backbone of economic security” in our country. Despite that ...

Participant education is an ongoing concern for plan sponsors – including how one can cut through the clutter and engage employees, even for a few minutes, with understanding about their benefits and ...

U.S. insurance carriers are accelerating their shift toward retirement income solutions and platform innovation as economic uncertainty grows says Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s (GSAM) in its annual ...

Processes are necessary for a retirement plan professional to serve clients as well as participants and beneficiaries. Industry experts recently offered ideas on training that improves processes, why ...

Established in 1997 as the Educator’s Award, the award was renamed in 2023 in memoriam of Thomas J. Finnegan III, the first ...