Happy Friday, PLANADVISER readers. In this week’s roundup we examine some critical emerging issues in retirement plan communications and education, leading us to the question, what have you done to ensure plan participants understand the real value and power of their employers’ benefits packages? And on the other hand, how much time have you spent learning what clients' employees want and need from their retirement plans?
Nearly six in 10 retirement plan sponsors say the majority of their participants are saving enough to retire with the income they will need, according to BlackRock’s DC Pulse Survey. But only 28% of the participants surveyed are confident they are saving enough. Where’s the disconnect?
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The reason employers say understanding of benefits is so low? Most participants do not open or read even the basic explanatory materials, say up to 80% of plan sponsoring organizations. Nearly a third of companies said their participants do not perceive value in their benefits.
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Common retirement questions—Will I be able to retire? Do I have enough to retire? Will I run out of money in retirement?—naturally lead to one overarching question: How do I find the correct answer to these fundamental questions?
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LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute found consumers who save for retirement are actually more likely to save for other goals, challenging the notion that retirement savings are often crowded out by other savings priorities or short-term spending.
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Perhaps one of the most telling findings from the 2015 PLANADVISER Micro Plan Survey is the increase in the number of retirement plans that work with an adviser and have $5 million or less in plan assets. Also striking, a very solid 74.2% of advisers say they are currently providing some level of one-on-one participant education.
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