The growing popularity of automatic enrollment in defined contribution plans – and target-date default choices in those plans – should fuel a surge in retirement plan assets, according...
New reports from the Vanguard Center for Retirement Research indicate American workers increasingly need help to generate a sustainable income stream in retirement and a variety of solutions...
During the financial crisis, millionaires did not express satisfaction with their advisers’ performance, but independent advisers fared better, a SpectremGroup study found.
As 403(b) plan sponsors and advisers have prepared for new Internal Revenue Services regulations in effect as of January 1, no doubt communications with participants about the new...
As of mid-October, only about 20% of high net worth investors (HNW) had contacted their current investment adviser for advice about the financial crisis, new research says.
Retirement plan advisers, like the adviser industry as a whole, will be driven by regulatory trends and see a move toward fee-based compensation, according to TowerGroup.
Capturing high-net-worth (HNW) clients is increasingly focused around a holistic financial outlook rather than generating good investment performance, according to the latest edition of 'The Cerulli Edge—U.S. Asset...
Some 43% of U.S. respondents to an employer survey by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEABS) said they offer financial education/literacy programs for their workers.
Similar to the protests in New York, teachers in Newport News, Virginia, are pushing back against their administration's efforts to limit their choice of 403(b) plan vendors.
Participants in defined contribution plans might benefit from re-enrolling into a qualified default investment alternative (QDIA), according to a Vanguard study.