In Practice

Defined contribution (DC) plan sponsors are already adopting defined benefit (DB) best practices in plan design, but plans could benefit from more DB-like investing and communication.

It’s an important question for advisory firm owners to ask, says Independent Financial Partners CEO William Hamm, Jr.: What happens to my clients if I have to quit...

Research from financial analytics firm Cerulli Associates shows more than a quarter of 401(k) participants look to their plan’s recordkeeper as their primary source of retirement advice.

Ranging over a number of factors that impact branding and differentiation, panelists at the 2014 PANC in Orlando, Florida, discussed what builds a retirement plan adviser's brand.

For industry executives on one panel at the 2014 PLANADVISER National Conference, retirement plan sponsor and participant education is a three-part effort.

On the third day of the 2014 PLANADVISER National Conference, the chief executive officers of Pershing and LPL Financial spoke about how their firms are supporting advisers.

A new report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) asks whether household expenditures commonly change with age for older Americans.

There is no end of things to benchmark in a retirement plan, and measuring advisers’ own services are especially key from a number of standpoints, said panelists at...

Approximately $720 billion in defined contribution (DC) plan assets was eligible for distribution but remained in employer-sponsored plans in 2013, according to a report from Cerulli Associates.

Retirement specialist advisers used to sell the idea of getting participants engaged, getting them to allocate their savings appropriately—but today advisers must take a different approach.

The 2014 RIA (Registered Investment Advisors) Benchmarking Study from Schwab Advisor Services finds employees look beyond their base salary for meaningful compensation.

Surprisingly, only one-third of retirement plan advisers know their gross and net margins, said Blake Thibault, senior vice president and adviser with Heffernan Financial Services.

The retirement planning industry has long been characterized by a shift from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) plans, but advisers still face great opportunity in serving...

A poll taken during an executive roundtable panel at the 2014 PLANADVISER National Conference found that 86% of attending advisers look to work force retirement readiness as an...

How secure are your technology and data practices? A pilot survey from the NASAA looks at state-registered advisers.

Plan advisers have a great deal more work to do on ensuring participant retirement readiness.

Financial services providers are failing to connect with the Millennial generation, according to new study by BNY Mellon and the University of Oxford.

Respondents to a survey identified health as the most important factor for a happy retirement, and health care costs as their biggest concern, highlighting the need to consider...

Biggest financial worries: unemployment, student loans, and whether Social Security will be adequate. Here comes Generation Z.

Some retirement plan participants think the required minimum distribution (RMD) is a good guide for an appropriate withdrawal rate in retirement, research suggests.