Tag: defined contribution plans

According to Willis Towers Watson’s Thinking Ahead Institute’s 2018 Global Pension Assets Study, the institute sees shifts in investment models for retirement plans across the globe.

Americans are confident DC plans will help them meet their retirement goals, ICI found.

The Bipartisan Policy Center and Ric Edelman announce the launch of “Funding Our Future: A Campaign for America’s Retirement Security.”

The tool analyzes administration fees as well as individual mutual fund fees.

More than one-quarter of organizations have or are planning or considering increasing 401(k) contributions, Willis Towers Watson finds.

They earn less than older generations, are less likely to participate in a retirement plan, and will have to contend with longer life spans and rising health care...

In the majority of cases, the plan’s consultant/adviser conducts the benchmarking (82.8%)—higher than in prior years, Callan finds.

In conversation with Jeff Kletti, head of investments at Wells Fargo Institutional Retirement and Trust, PLANADVISER gets an inside view of some emerging—and some familiar—defined contribution plan trends.

They want help with investments, participant education and fiduciary responsibilities.

However, advice seeking increases with age, account balance and annual contribution level.

A final rule opens the current program to terminated DC plans and small professional service defined benefit plans.

Higher-income workers, making $90,000 a year, will pay $277,000, according to America’s Best 401k.

All employees would have 6% of their income contributed to a workplace retirement plan and have these contributions automatically escalated each year.