The IRS on July 7 updated the list of Cycle 2 403 (b) pre-approved plans. The list of Cycle 2 403 (b) pre-approved plans includes pre-approved plans that were submitted to the IRS for opinion letters ...

Senate Republicans, including Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who is chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, have introduced bills that would expand independent ...

Wilshire, which collects data on U.S. pensions sponsored by employers in the S&P 500, showed the strongest amount of growth. They said in their analysis that the funded ratio of those plans grew by ...

Prime Capital's Stout said the announcement blends ASPPA and NAPA member expertise, taking the highly technical administrative knowledge the former provides and joining it with advisors.

Turning to participation rates, Vanguard notes that it has two measures, with the most common being the average rate among a group of plans (referred to as the plan-weighted participation rate). In ...

Both the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) were repealed by the Social Security Fairness Act. This affected Social Security’s costs at a time when the ...

After intense last-minute negotiations, both houses of Congress approved the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act before their self-imposed July 4 deadline — clearing the measure for President Trump’s ...

Retirement income solutions are gaining traction, but that doesn't mean that it’s clear sailing for their adoption and in-plan use, nor even for active interest in them. Industry experts recently ...

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 ...

ASEA focuses on the professional development needs of actuaries, maintaining the actuaries-only Google Group, and offering specialized conferences. ASEA members enhance ASPPA programs with actuarial ...

Elevate your expertise in managing and selling defined contribution retirement plans with ASPPA’s Qualified 401(k) Specialist (QKS) credential program. Designed for client-facing professionals, the ...

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 ...