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| Video Series Helps Advisers Tap Market Opportunity |
| Attracting and keeping top talent is a growing challenge in an improving job market. Educate clients and prospects on how nonqualified benefits help recruit, retain and retire key employees through short videos from The Principal. Follow the link to watch now.
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| Overcoming Plan Sponsor Inertia |
| It’s not only plan participants that are prone to inertia. Plan sponsors, too, can find it a challenge to step up their retirement plan designs. A panel of experts at BlackRock’s Retirement Roundtable discussed the current low interest rate environment, plan design features, increasing longevity and the simple trick to getting people to save more.
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| Automatic IRAs Would Help with Retirement Crisis |
| Whether automatic IRAs could significantly increase retirement readiness and reduce the national retirement savings deficit depends largely on age, the default contribution rate and the opt-out rate, according to new research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
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| BNY Mellon Unveils Publication For and About DC Plans |
| BNYMellon’s new quarterly print and digital magazine “DC Planet,” aimed at retirement plan advisers and sponsors, recordkeepers and platform managers, will cover emerging best practices for retirement plans, investments, fiduciary and regulatory developments, and participant engagement and communication. Topics in the inaugural issue include: the Department of Labor’s proposed fiduciary rule and holistic financial wellness.
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| State Street Publishes DC Plan Resource for Multi-Nationals |
| Insights to help multi-national companies with defined contribution plans in different countries are available in a paper by State Street Global Advisors. Firms can approach their benefits plans strategically to attract and retain talent and produce better retirement outcomes for employees using ten best practices.
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| Beacon Group Adds VP of Retirement Sales |
| Mark Schatzel has been named vice president of retirement sales at the Beacon Group of Companies, where he is tasked with helping business owners and executive staff improve their retirement plans.
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| Bogdahn Group Expands DC Investment Consulting Team |
| Paul Murray joins the Bogdahn Group with more than 25 years of experience working with hospital and higher education 401(k)s and 403(b)s. He will assist the firm in its continued expansion of the defined contribution practice, which provides advice to more than $6 billion dollars in assets.
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| DIVERSIONS: When Your Coworkers Say Arf! |
| Don’t be surprised if your colleagues seem to be barking more than usual when annual Take Your Dog to Work Day rolls around. Pet Sitters International created the event 17 years ago “to celebrate the great companions dogs make and promote their adoption.” Also, the organization asks, “Whoever heard of working like a cat?”
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