Report Highlights Savings Gaps, Ways To Close Them
A new report finds that while many participants aren’t yet on track to meet their retirement savings goals, a combination of plan design changes and...
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Behavior Modification
Behavioral finance applies to employers, too. Four decisions they have trouble making, and how you can help.
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QDIA Essentials
PLANSPONSOR’s National Conference earlier this summer featured a series of panels titled “Five Things You Need to Know About…” focused on a series of topics.
New Standard Solution Combines Behavioral Finance, Best Practices
Standard Retirement Services has announced the launch of enhanced retirement plan solutions.
Participants Prize Retirement Plans – More
More than half of 401(k) retirement savings plan participants report that their plan has become more important to them since the financial crisis of 2008.
AllianceBernstein Launches Multimanager Target-Date Solution
AllianceBernstein has launched its Multimanager Retirement Strategies (MRS) target-date solution.
Court Moves Forward Claims of Defaulted Participant
A federal court judge has refused to dismiss claims by a 401(k) participant that plan fiduciaries breached their duties when they transferred his accounts into a new default...
How Much Help Are Defaulted Participants Getting?
New research indicates employers could do more to help defaulted participants adequately save for retirement.
Pace of Plan Change Still Positive, But Slow
Participants were more likely to gain access to advice last year – but the pace of expansion was slow.
AB Adds Volatility Management to Target-Date Offerings
AllianceBernstein is taking steps to smooth out the bumps in the road for its target-date fund family.
Offering Investment Advice is More the Norm at 401(k)s
Half of employers now offer workers outside investment advisory services, including advice, guidance, and/or managed accounts, according to Hewitt Associates.
Prudential “Redefines” Retirement
Prudential Financial has been talking about a new kind of retirement – now the firm has rolled out those ideas as a product design.
Senate Hearing Asks, Are Target-Date Funds Missing the Mark?
This week a Senate committee will once again take up the topic of target-date funds.
IMHO: Conference “Calls”
As I was listening to, and participating in, panels at our Future of Asset Allocated Funds conference in California this past week, I was struck again...
American Funds Extends Target Date Series
The American Funds Target Date Retirement series is making plans to add a new fund to the series.
Target Date Funds a “Particular Focus” For SEC
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking a hard look at retirement products, including the positioning of target-date funds.
Prudential Promotes Improved DC Plan Designs
Redefining defined contribution (DC) plans will dramatically improve outcomes for plan sponsors and participants, according to a new white paper released by Prudential Financial.
AllianceBernstein Says Participants Still Bullish on Target-Dates
Target-date funds have drawn a lot of scrutiny of late, but a new survey suggests that participants still have confidence in the approach.
IMHO: Target Aims
Asset-allocation fund solutions have, to put it mildly, exploded on the retirement plan scene—aided in no small measure by the sanction of the Department of Labor’s final regulations...
PANC 2009: What to Consider When Selecting a QDIA
The selection of a qualified default investment alternative is one of the most important plan sponsor investment decision because of how many participants it may affect.