| Businesses Not Keen on State-Run Retirement Plans |
| However, small and mid-sized business owners survey by The Pew Charitable Trusts do like the idea of auto-IRAs and other ways to provide retirement plans to employees.
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| Defining Reasonable Compensation Is a Team Sport |
| A new series of white papers from Fiduciary Benchmarks asks the challenging question, “Who has the job of determining whether an adviser’s compensation is reasonable?”
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| Retirement Savings Models Simplify a Complex Picture |
| When actuaries do forecasting for defined benefit plans, they do not look at one set of assumptions; they model multiple scenarios. If the DB plan sponsor is risk-averse, it would look at the poorer outcomes and hedge against them. The same can be done with DC planning models.
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| Unconventional Assets in DC Plans Remain Poorly Understood |
| Federal data collection efforts to date have captured little information on retirement accounts holding unconventional assets—such as real estate, precious metals, private equity, and virtual currency.
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