Tag: Education

Albany, New York-based Newkirk, a retirement plan communications provider, has unveiled a suite of retirement readiness communications and reports.

Heading into Super Bowl weekend, a new report focused attention on another “contest.”

Securian said participants who received a personalized Annual Checkup on their quarterly statements measuring the adequacy of their deferral rates are setting aside the same amount or more...

Researchers studying how best to get women and low-income workers to save for retirement were able to achieve a 56% enrollment hike among their target audience at Dartmouth...

Freedom One Financial Group has added vWise SmartPlan Enterprise to its education and communication service offering to plan participants.

As the New Year begins, we are often of a mind to think about making a fresh start.

A few years back—when my kids still believed in the reality of Santa Claus—we discovered an ingenious Web site that purported to offer a real-time assessment...

MassMutual's Retirement Services Division has announced plans to introduce its new RetireSmart participant engagement platform in the second quarter of 2010.

TIAA-CREF is the latest financial firm to offer an application for the iPhone.

In one of the more challenging economic years in memory, it is not surprising that the pace of change set in motion in defined contribution plans by the...

ING said it has added staff to further the company’s multicultural sales efforts, particularly in its retirement services business.

More than three-fourths of surveyed plan sponsors of a defined contribution plan continued their matching company contributions during the economic downturn.

NextStep Defined Contribution, Inc., has agreed to add the SmartPlan Enterprise interactive-video retirement planning system from vWise, Inc., to the NextStep participant education offering.

A new bill aims to inform participants of how their account balances translate into actual income in retirement. 

Employees who rate their benefits communications as ‘highly effective’ reported having access to a wider range of communication options, from group meetings to e-mail messages to videos, according...

MG Advisory Services, LLC, a provider of products and services to financial advisers, broker/dealers, and TPAs, has expanded its RetireTool(k)it product to include plan proposals explaining the open-architecture...

Charles Schwab has expanded content on its educational Web site for consumers.

Regular employer-sponsored retirement seminars motivate more employees to participate in and contribute to company 401(k) plans, according to a study published in Economic Inquiry.

In a Webinar today, Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, said 401(k) plan sponsors should pay attention to the savings differences among minorities.