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Panelists discussed recent trends in fees and how providers can keep plan sponsors and participants up to date. 

It consists of six live, web-based training sessions conducted over a three-month period.

Participant advice has highly progressed in the latest years, with the introduction of mobile technology and advanced systems, but how will it change under the new fiduciary rule vacate? 

Panelists discussed numerous investment options that can push additional retirement savings. 

It offers advisers prospecting tools, plan management resources, including fiduciary support, and educational materials.

The Investment Company Institute also found 401(k) plan participants investing in mutual funds tend to hold lower-cost funds.

When trades were made, there was a continued movement away from equities into fixed income.

Vanguard has issued a new framework, jointly developed with Mercer, that helps pre-retirees and retirees with planning for annual health care costs and long-term care expenses in retirement.

“If a plan sponsor can invest in an adviser or other person to provide direction for terminating or retiring employees, that would be extremely helpful,” Terry Dunne, from Millennium Trust Company, told 2018 PLANSPONSOR National Conference attendees.

The panel focused on current asset allocation trends, and then shifted to what plan sponsors and participants need to know about these investment products. 

Together, they supply 40% of retirees’ income.

Plan sponsors are responsible for recruiting those who will be dedicated to continuous learning on ERISA, fiduciary duties, and more. 

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Brighthouse Life Insurance Company have agreed to work with the DOL to determine whether more than 2,000 retirement plans in their custody are abandoned.

Sources at the 2018 PLANSPONSOR National Conference discussed financial wellness, choosing between Roth and pre-tax savings and saving for long-term health care expenses.

Participants in non-ERISA 403(b) plans could be considered "retail customers" under a section of the SEC's proposal, a law alert warns.

A new survey of advisers published by Schwab Independent Branch Services suggests client-facing staffers are “brimming with entrepreneurial drive,” and as a result they are increasingly drawn to independence.

Borrowing to fund and making in-kind contributions were just a couple of the strategies Robin M. Solomon, a partner at Ivins, Phillips & Barker, shared with attendees of the 2018 PLANSPONSOR National Conference.

Voya Adds Account Executive for Large Corporate Market Business; Stadion Appoints Vice President of Business Development; OneAmerica Hires Client Relationship Executives; and more.

Two experts discuss the most noteworthy issues in today’s retirement planning space.

Senator Sherrod Brown calls it imperative "to find a bipartisan solution to the crisis threatening 1.3 million Americans."