Politics

The 2022 retirement law aims to help workers pay off their student debts and save for retirement. Can it do both? It's complicated.

Nervous investors often ask how the presidential election will affect their portfolios. New research offers a simple way to reassure them: Look at the numbers.

Proposals to crack down on private placement insurance contracts aren't close to becoming law. Here's how advisors and their clients can use them for the time being.

At least 17 Republicans and one Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, have signed onto a joint resolution under the Congressional Review Act.

Three regulatory amendments that are attached to the new "retirement security rule" display the stakes of the legal challenge already brewing in court.

Social Security is still drifting toward insolvency, according to the program's board of trustees. Here's how to reassure worried retirement savers.

As Congress battles over shutdowns, Social Security's staff has dwindled to its smallest size in decades. For retirees, that means longer wait times and delayed benefits — but advisors can help.

As it and other critics pursue a coordinated legal strategy, a trade group for independent insurance agents requested an injunction to put the regulation on hold.

The text reveals why agency officials believe it's necessary, how it will work in practice, how much it will cost and how it responded to criticism.

Here's how commenters such as the AARP, SIFMA, FSI, the Consumer Federation, NAPFA, the CFP Board and others view the Department of Labor's retirement advice regulation.