Tag: defined contribution plans

They also say that these accounts help them think about the long term and make it easier to save, an ICI survey found.

With participants not panicking in Q4 2018 and the longer term trends resulting from automatic plan features, Fidelity Investments finds an overall improvement in average participant savings and...

Notably, more than 60% of employers want to keep retirees in their plan, and they are looking to change their targeted communications to inspire action, Alight Solutions found.

Ten percent more employers than in 2016 that offer retirement programs are measuring the financial readiness of employees to retire, a survey found.

Leading distributors are consolidating assets, and new groups are growing in influence.

Willis Towers Watson believes that sponsors must analyze the retirement adequacy and meaningful benchmarks for individuals or segments of the population.

The consulting firm says that few plan sponsors pay close attention to how their employees allocate their retirement savings.

Mercer offers recommendations for retirement plan sponsors to search for missing participants.

ICI finds the first quarter of the year tends to have lower percentages of DC plan participants with loans outstanding compared with later quarters.

“By providing a more diversified set of fixed income options, plan sponsors can help participants be better equipped to weather any challenging market environment, such as the rising...

They deferred 90% or more of the maximum that could be invested in a defined contribution (DC) plan in 2017.

It would raise the contribution limits for SIMPLE plans and modernize form filing requirements.

The “Less Is Not More” study set out to determine whether presenting retirement plan information in a more compact and accessible way increases participation and results in better...

They are on track to replace 75% of their income, compared to 64% for Americans overall.

But more than half of pre-retirees expect to hold down a job, PGIM found in a survey.

The new law extends the time a participant has to repay loans from 60 days after an offset to the date their tax return is due.