Tag: Defined contribution

Andrew Gracan joined Great-West Financial as regional sales director of national accounts in the Northeast.

The right metrics and valuation strategy can help defined contribution (DC) plan investment committees cut through the complexity of evaluating target-date fund (TDF) performance.

A new survey by Aon Hewitt revealed that employers are boosting efforts to help their employees save for retirement.

A series of animated “whiteboards,” released by New York Life Retirement Plan Services, aims to illustrate prominent 401(k) planning concepts for employer-sponsored retirement plan participants.

BNP Paribas Investment Partners Trust Company added a share class to offer employer-sponsored retirement plans access to its U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) comingled investment fund.

Growing levels of student loan debt could force today’s college graduates to retire more than a decade beyond the current average retirement age.

Lingering financial strains exacerbated by slow economic growth continue to push middle class workers’ priorities away from retirement savings and towards monthly expenses, according to the 2013 Wells...

Defined contribution (DC) plans currently account for approximately half of participants’ total investable wealth, according to the Cogent Research DC Participant Planscape Study.

Allianz Global Investors offers its web-based Target-Date Tool Set for retirement plan advisers.

Retirement plan participants may be more open to changes in the design of their plans than previously thought, according to a new study.

A best-practice defined contribution (DC) plan can provide secure retirement income at equivalent cost to a defined benefit (DB) plan, according to a new research paper from the...

A new paper gives sponsors of defined contribution (DC) plans some guidance on evaluating glide paths for target-date funds (TDFs).

A new retirement readiness survey found an increasing number of plan sponsors point to participant outcomes, not gross participation rates, as the best measure of success for an...

Wealth and asset management firm Northern Trust added two positions within its defined contribution solutions practice dedicated to expanding participant communications and asset services offerings. 

ERISA Fiduciary Advisors (EFA) affiliated with Retirement Plan Advisory Group (RPAG), the largest independent practice management firm in the country.

Plan sponsors can go a long way toward reducing leakage from defined contribution (DC) retirement plans.

Several factors have created a retirement funding gap that is estimated to be as high as $6 trillion, said panelists in a discussion at BlackRock.

Households without employer-sponsored defined contribution (DC) plans or individual retirement accounts (IRA) had lower incomes and paid less taxes than peers with access to such plans, a study...

Fiduciaries of defined contribution (DC) retirement plans are becoming increasingly challenged to carve out time for their responsibilities and are looking at outsourcing some of them, according to...

A new study has identified common practices for plan success in defined contribution (DC) retirement plans around the world.