IMHO: When You Assume…
Somewhere in the course of your professional life, you have no doubt heard (or used) the expression about what happens when you assume1.
Tag: Default funds
Automatic Enrollment, Target-Date Funds Still Hot Topics
Nearly half (47%) of employers are now automatically enrolling participants into a retirement plan and another third are seriously considering it, a new survey found.
EBSA Sets Out Carrot, Stick Agenda
When it comes to employee benefit plans, there’s a new sheriff in town.
IMHO: Domino Theories
If you want to get a quick sense of just how fast time flies, consider that it was only a year ago this week that Lehman Brothers filed...
Prudential Calls for Stable Value To Be Included as QDIAs
Testifying before the U.S. Department of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council, James King, Jr., vice president and head of Prudential Retirement’s Stable Value Markets Group, urged that stable value...
Anheuser-Busch Sued over QDIA Selection
Anheuser-Busch has been hit with a federal court lawsuit alleging the brewer and a trustee improperly designated an overly risky qualified default investment alternative (QDIA) for participants’ cash...
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Grabbing the Right Option
The QDIA regulations open the door for new default options
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The More Things Change
As fond as I am of the phrase "the more things change, the more they stay the same," I sometimes question its applicability to the retirement plan space.