
Improving Outcomes | Plan Aggregation
The Full View
The merits of pulling in participants’ external financial information.

Data & Research
Client Service
How Auto-Portability Can Address the Wealth Gap
Research shows workers who cash out their retirement plan savings could lose roughly 1.5 years of accumulated wages, but auto-portability seeks to make it easier to prevent this.
Exploring the Lost Opportunities of Small IRA Rollovers
Retirement industry experts say automatic portability could be the solution to a pervasive problem.

Editor’s Letter
Data & Research
Compliance
They Should Take It With Them
Auto-portability can dramatically effect workers’ savings when the person moves from job to job.
Considering Auto Portability Rather Than Small Plan Cashouts
Considering automatically rolling balances from one plan to another for participants who terminate employment with small balances plan sponsors are allowed to cashout, EBRI found additional accumulations over 40 years would be $1.5 trillion.
DOL Issues Final Prohibited Transaction Exemption for Auto-Portability
Now that participants’ small balances may be automatically transferred to their new 401(k) account, Retirement Clearinghouse expects to see a lot of business.
