Tag: 401(k)

Research from Cerulli Associates, a Boston-based research and analytics firm, shows retirement rollover contributions to individual retirement accounts (IRAs) reached $321 billion during 2012.

A paper published in The Journal of Retirement argues that asset-allocation glide paths popularized in target-date funds (TDFs) fail to deliver superior end-point wealth.

Fidelity Investments says the average balance of its 401(k) plan accounts rose to a record high of $84,300 at the end of the third quarter.

The 401(k) market’s annual growth rate is holding at 9% and could push total assets beyond $4.2 trillion next year, a report from Ignites Retirement Research shows.

Participation in employer-sponsored retirement plans has been generally stable since 2011.

Bank of America is moving its $19 billion defined contribution (DC) plan, currently with Fidelity, to the Merrill Lynch platform.

Sapiens International Corporation announced the upcoming release of its Retirement Services Recordkeeping Platform.

Andrew Gracan joined Great-West Financial as regional sales director of national accounts in the Northeast.

Since its introduction nearly 30 years ago, the 401(k) has evolved from a perk for high-paid executives to an essential benefit to finance the retirement of the middle...

The right metrics and valuation strategy can help defined contribution (DC) plan investment committees cut through the complexity of evaluating target-date fund (TDF) performance.

A new survey by Aon Hewitt revealed that employers are boosting efforts to help their employees save for retirement.

A series of animated “whiteboards,” released by New York Life Retirement Plan Services, aims to illustrate prominent 401(k) planning concepts for employer-sponsored retirement plan participants.

Growing levels of student loan debt could force today’s college graduates to retire more than a decade beyond the current average retirement age.

Defined contribution (DC) plans currently account for approximately half of participants’ total investable wealth, according to the Cogent Research DC Participant Planscape Study.

Allianz Global Investors offers its web-based Target-Date Tool Set for retirement plan advisers.

Washington’s warning to slash tax-deferral incentives associated with 401(k)s and individual retirement accounts (IRAs) tops advisers’ challenges in 2014, according to Brian Graff, executive director of the American...

A new retirement readiness survey found an increasing number of plan sponsors point to participant outcomes, not gross participation rates, as the best measure of success for an...

Insurance and investment services provider Pacific Life unveiled a new strategy to educate financial advisers on opportunities and best practices for winning clients in the small to medium-sized...

Plan sponsors can go a long way toward reducing leakage from defined contribution (DC) retirement plans.

Several factors have created a retirement funding gap that is estimated to be as high as $6 trillion, said panelists in a discussion at BlackRock.