Tag: Enrollment participation

The majority (55%) of Gen Yers have not started to save for retirement, and fewer than a quarter (21%) are actively planning for retirement, according to Scottrade.

Defined contribution plans using automatic enrollment increased plan participation rates by nearly 30%, according to a study, but the contribution rate at enrollment is too low.

Transamerica Retirement Services unveiled a mobile application that it says allows employees to enroll in a retirement plan in as little as three minutes.

The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP) is celebrating National Employee Benefits Day with a special Web site for the occasion.

LIMRA’s 401(k) Scorecard for Q4 2010 shows sales had both positive and negative results.

There’s been a lot of talk coming from Washington of late about the need to have “an adult conversation” with the American people. 

Merrill Lynch hosted a Webcast this week called, “It’s Your Future: What Young Americans Need to Know About Retirement,” hosted by former ABC News anchor, Charles Gibson.  

Fidelity found workplace retirement plan participants are becoming increasingly more engaged in their plans.

Panelists at the Virtual PLANADVISER National Conference discussed ways advisers should reconnect with plan sponsors and sweep away some of the old cobwebs surrounding retirement plans. 

Laying it all out on the table, PLANSPONSOR and PLANADVISER’s Editor-in-Chief, Nevin E. Adams, opened the first Virtual PLANADVISER National Conference (VPANC) by outlining the top 10 trends...

Over the past two years, the youngest generation in the workforce has become more engaged in learning about the benefits available to them, according to Unum.

Towers Watson took an in-depth look at defined contribution (DC) plans among Fortune 100 companies, focusing on plan design and investment options.

A LIMRA study found defined contribution plan participation and deferral rates are nearly identical for women and men, yet women's totals are falling short.

An Aon Hewitt survey reveals that just 38% of employers are confident that workers are taking accountability for their financial future, down from 43% in 2010.

Somewhere over the course of your academic or professional career, I’m sure you’ve been exposed to any number of group exercises.  

If 2010 was not quite the return to “normal” we might have hoped, there was more than enough—both new and old—to draw the attention of plan sponsors.   

Savannah, Georgia-based Memorial Health will suspend its matching contributions to employees’ retirement accounts for at least a year, beginning February 1. 

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...

Not so long ago, plan sponsors gauged the success of their defined contribution offerings by a single metric: participation rate.   

A report from Aon Hewitt suggests that Generation Y workers (ages 18 to 30) may be most at risk for not having enough savings in retirement, despite having...