The New York State Common Retirement Fund is asking shareholders of Amazon.com Inc., Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., Match Group Inc. and two retailers to support independent studies of how the businesses may contribute to racial inequities.

A New York bricklayers retirement fund will be the first mulitemployer pension plan to receive federal financial assistance under a stimulus bill for union pensions President Joe Biden signed into law last year.

Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc. mismanages its retirement plans by filling them with expensive and overly risky investments and failing to rein in administrative fees, four current and former employees alleged in a federal lawsuit.

Boston Children’s Hospital was sued in federal court by four former employees who say the hospital’s $1.1 billion retirement plan paid excessive administrative fees and offered expensive and risky target-date funds as the default investment option.

Florida would ban workplace training and public school lessons that teach people they should feel guilty about their race or sex, under a bill that’s almost ready for a Senate floor vote.

A $7 million settlement between T. Rowe Price Group Inc. and a class of 18,000 people who say the company’s 401(k) plan was filled with expensive, in-house funds received preliminary approval from a federal judge in Maryland.