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• Financial Literacy Education Not Making the Grade Tuesday, 4 Jun 2013 | 7:47 AM ET

  

  Despite a proliferation of games and apps, and efforts by schools to teach the subject, financial literacy declined between 2009 and 2012, a survey shows.

• Why Hedge Fund Investing Is Booming  Tuesday, 4 Jun 2013 | 5:30 AM ET

  

  Amy Bensted, head of hedge fund products at Preqin, discusses the increase in hedge fund investments and how investors are not necessarily chasing returns but looking for lower volatility.

• Santelli Takes on Japan's Pension Plan  Thursday, 30 May 2013 | 10:51 AM ET

  

  Rick Santelli explains why you need to be watching Japan carefully. (3:06)

• Stern Advice-Why pension funds are eating your 401(k)'s lunch Wednesday, 22 May 2013 | 1:27 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, May 22- Pension funds- those old guaranteed-benefit retirement plans your grandma might have told you about- outperform those in 401 plans year after year, according to new research from consulting company Towers Watson.

• COLUMN-Transforming your 401(k) into steady income Tuesday, 21 May 2013 | 11:57 AM ET

  CHICAGO, May 21- A job and a paycheck- they go together like coffee and cream. But when you retire from your regular job, does that mean you have to give up the cream? They want a piece of the $5.1 trillion in assets that the Investment Company Institute says was in workplace retirement plans last year.

• Santelli Finds Problem With Pension Payouts  Tuesday, 7 May 2013 | 10:52 AM ET

  

  CNBC's Rick Santelli identifies what he sees as a root cause of financial problems for the states.

• Dairy Workers Get a Pension Full of Aging Cheese Friday, 19 Apr 2013 | 3:59 PM ET

  

  In a growing trend, Dairy Crest, one of Britain's top producers of dairy products, has transferred 20,000 pounds of cheddar cheese to its pension fund.

• Plan Your Retirement With ETFs  Wednesday, 17 Apr 2013 | 10:36 AM ET

  

  CNBC's Bob Pisani explains how ETF's are gaining ground for many people planning their retirement portfolios.

• How Retirement Cap Limits Impact Small Business: CEO  Monday, 15 Apr 2013 | 11:20 AM ET

  

  CNBC's Rick Santelli talks with Brian Graff, American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries CEO, about who will get hurt the most in a proposal that limits pension contributions.

• JPMorgan's Pension Fund: Split Leadership Duties  Monday, 15 Apr 2013 | 7:23 AM ET

  

  JPMorgan's pension fund is sending a letter to JPM's shareholders urging for a separation of the CEO and chairman position, reports CNBC's Kayla Tausche.

• AARP Responds to Commerce Criticism  Friday, 12 Apr 2013 | 7:32 AM ET

  

  Robert Romasco, President of AARP, defends the organizations stand on social security reforms and the impact of entitlement program on the nation's growing deficit problem.

• How to Make Americans Really Save for Retirement Tuesday, 2 Apr 2013 | 10:15 AM ET

  

  Tax incentives to spur retirement-plan contributions lead only relatively wealthy, well educated Americans to save more, studies show. Automatic contributions work much better.

• Are Hedge Funds Risking Public's Pension Money?  Tuesday, 19 Mar 2013 | 12:47 PM ET

  

  Outsized risks by hedge funds and fees could imperil pensions, says Simon Lack, SL Advisors founder and author of "The Hedge Fund Mirage."

• Emerging Economies New Haven for Pension Funds?   Friday, 15 Mar 2013 | 4:30 AM ET

  

  Sheikh Maktoum Hasher Al Maktoum, executive chairman at SHUAA Capital, explains why pension funds are buying into emerging countries as well as why he is focusing on SME asset based lending, and moving away from any banking and sovereign risks.

• Treacherous Times for Hedge Funds Wednesday, 13 Mar 2013 | 1:17 PM ET

  

  The stock rally, low fixed-income yields, plateauing commodities and legal pressures have added to the concerns many investors have when dealing with hedge funds.

• AMP: Why Australian Sentiment Is Improving  Wednesday, 20 Feb 2013 | 6:10 PM ET

  

  Craig Dunn, CEO of AMP, tells CNBC how falling interest rates have boosted domestic sentiment in Australia, helping achieve a 2 percent rise in fiscal-year net profit.

• UPDATE 1-EU plans 11-nation financial trading tax from 2014 Thursday, 14 Feb 2013 | 7:54 AM ET

  *Austria's Fekter welcomes plan to boost coffers. LONDON, Feb 14- The European Union's executive formally proposed on Thursday a tax on financial trading in 11 countries to raise up to 35 billion euros annually, a step investors said would hit savers and pension pots.

• Rethinking savings plans as struggling Americans raid 401(k)s Tuesday, 5 Feb 2013 | 10:59 AM ET

  *Options limited amid tight budgets, Washington gridlock. WASHINGTON, Feb 5- For too many of Vada Lindsey's lower-income clients, their hard-earned 401 accounts become go-to emergency funds when they are faced with unexpected cash needs.