Tag: Defined contribution

Slightly more than half (53%) of employers feel responsible for providing financial vehicles, as well as education and advice, to help their employees have a secure retirement, according...

I’ve long adhered to the wisdom of having a “Plan B,” a fallback position if the things you hope will work out—don’t.   

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has tentatively decided not to require employers that contribute to multi-employer plans to disclose the estimated withdrawal liability, as it had proposed...

Multiple employer plans (MEPs) offer great potential as a retirement savings option for small-business owners, says Transamerica Retirement Services, in a recently published white paper.

Withdrawals and other leakage issues should be less of a concern to retirement plan sponsors than other factors, according to a research analyst at Vanguard. 

An Aon Hewitt study found that participation in defined contribution (DC) plans has reached a record high of 75.8% among eligible employees.  

The Financial Research Corporation (FRC) estimates that over the next five years, assets in defined contribution (DC) plans and IRAs will grow from $9.0 trillion in 2010 to...

In its 2011 Defined Contribution Survey, BlackRock asked plan sponsors and participants to describe the allocation of responsibility they see in retirement plans.   

USI Consulting Group announced Michael W. Fischer has joined the company as a Defined Contribution Consultant, based in New York City.

 The share of defined contribution plan participants that stopped making contributions in 2010 was significantly lower than the share that stopped contributing in 2009.

A recent working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research critically analyzes previous attempts to explain conversions of government pension provision systems, or social security systems,...

A U.S. District Court has certified as a class action a suit against YRC Worldwide that claims it offered company stock as a 401(k) investment option when it...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced that labor and employment attorney Wanda Holloway has joined the firm as a partner in its Houston office.

Putnam Investments has hired Michael Shamon and Daniel McDermott for senior positions in defined contribution sales and client relations.

The Government Accountability Office contends that the shift away from defined benefit retirement plans to more defined contribution plans has resulted in disproportionate benefits for American workers.

The Center for Retirement Research has found that defined contribution plans may have a role in the public sector, but in combination with, not as an alternative to,...

It should come as no surprise that the vast majority of plan sponsors who have adopted automatic enrollment have chosen to default that initial deferral at 3%...

Defined contribution (DC) plan participants pay the most attention to their current balance (42%), rather than other plan elements.

Russell Investments has hired Chris Barlow as a defined contribution specialist for the firm’s U.S. adviser-sold business.

Allianz Global Investors Distributors (AGID) announced that Nick Loglisci Jr. has joined the firm as Managing Director in the Defined Contribution (DC) group.