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Bull and Bear Market Fundamentals for Participants
All too often, participants are focused on what markets have done in the last several months or years, and they get away from remembering the basics of long-term...
RetireUp Announces Wealthbox Integration for Advisers
The integration brings together retirement income planning software with a web- and mobile-based CRM application.
Adviser Survey Closes End of Day – Take To Be Eligible for Top 100 Advisers
Once again this year, in an attempt to minimize the number of surveys we ask you to complete, we have combined the Top 100 questionnaire with our annual...
Discuss Accelerating Contributions With DB Plan Sponsor Clients
Contributing more than the minimum required for 2017 by the September 15 deadline will result in a higher deduction for plan sponsors, and continuing to accelerate funding in...
ERIC Wants IRS to Expand on PLR About Student Loan Repayment Benefit
The ERISA Industry Committee is asking the IRS to broaden the Private Letter Ruling guidance via a revenue ruling or other guidance.
Amicus Briefs Argue Against 9th Circuit USC Decision About Arbitration Agreements
The appellate court upheld a district court’s denial of defendants’ motion to compel arbitration, concluding that the dispute fell outside the scope of the arbitration agreements because the...
Lincoln Investment Partners With eMoney Advisor to Offer Financial Planning Solutions
This now brings Lincoln’s technology packages up to five.
Chrysler Pension Plan Participant Finds Some Litigation Success in 6th Circuit
The case has already bounced back and forth several times between the district and appellate courts, testing complicated questions about conflicting language in summary plan descriptions and formal...
Wells Fargo Drops Plans to Use T Shares in Retirement Accounts
Asked whether Wells Fargo Advisors will reconsider T shares if the DOL’s fiduciary rule is revisited or the SEC pushes through a conflict of interest rule, the firm...
IRS Extends Closed DB Plan Nondiscrimination Relief Through 2019
The new extension makes nondiscrimination relief available for plan years beginning before 2020, if the conditions of Notice 2014-5 are satisfied.
SOA Seeks Input on New Public Pension Mortality Tables
The SOA’s public-sector mortality study is designed to provide public pension actuaries and plan sponsors with information to help set mortality assumptions and includes separate mortality tables for...
HNW Investors Pay Close Attention to Inflation as They Prepare for Retirement
Sixty-eight percent say they pay close attention to inflation as they prepare for retirement.
Investing HSA Assets Helps Savings Grow
Devenir estimates that $9.8 billion of HSA assets are invested as of June 30, 2018—an estimated 45% year-over-year increase.
Participants Voice Student Debt Concerns as Balances Grow
“In this year’s survey, an astounding 85% of respondents paying toward student loans reported that their obligation to repay the funds are impacting their ability to prepare for...
Weyerhaeuser Reveals Plans to Reduce Pension Liabilities
The company will offer a lump-sum distribution window to certain participants and transfer certain retiree assets to a group annuity.
FinMason and Orion Integration Create Retirement Readiness Program
The planning service will offer investment analytical platforms, tools and financial data to Orion users.
Advisers Should Consider Unpredictable Retirement Age in Client Retirement Planning
Morningstar suggests individuals and their advisers should focus on strategies that can maximize retirement savings, regardless of planned retirement age.
401(k) Plan Sponsors Worried About the Number of Participant Loans
Alight Solutions found when offered two loans, 14.4% of participants take advantage of that. When offered three loans, 11.9% do the same.
Single Premium Pension Buy-Out Sales Exceed $8.2 Billion
This is more than double the sales in the second quarter of 2017.
Participant Loan Activity Appears to Have a Quarterly Seasonal Pattern
ICI finds the first quarter of the year tends to have lower percentages of DC plan participants with loans outstanding compared with later quarters.