Tag: Plan design

American United Life Insurance Company (AUL), a OneAmerica company, has introduced a multiple-employer 401(k) option for small- to mid-sized employers.

The Hartford Financial Services Group is introducing a service to help advisers identify potential risks associated with retirement plans and educate plan sponsors on how to eliminate those...

Fifty-five percent of plan sponsors say they have no plans to adopt automatic enrollment in 2011, according to a recently released survey.

More than three-quarters of retirement plan sponsors have emerging markets equities in their investment lineups or are considering adding them, according to a Grant Thornton survey.

Thirty percent of plan sponsors hope to reinstate previously eliminated or reduced matching contributions during 2011, according to a study.

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.

More small-business owners feel offering health insurance is more important than offering a retirement plan, 59% to 47%, a Paychex survey found.

Great-West Retirement Services and John Hancock investment options will be added to American Pension Services' multiple-employer plan solution.

One-third of companies with fewer than 25 employees offer retirement plans, compared to about 80% of companies with 100 or more employees, a report found.  

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. 

Small-business owners are slowly starting to realize that they can’t handle retirement planning on their own, according toE. Thomas Foster Jr., Vice President and National Spokesperson of The Hartford's...

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...

Frank Moore is the newest retirement plan consultant in the Birmingham, Alabama, office of CPI Qualified Plan Consultants.

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

Witnesses appearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Thursday told lawmakers that while the retirement income sufficiency issue in the U.S. is...

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney announced that detailed fee and service benchmarking tools have been added to its defined contribution retirement plans.

A MetLife study set out to assess how plan sponsors are balancing "retirement savings" and "retirement income" in their plan design; MetLife found most are still focusing on...

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.

Retirement Plan Advisory Group (RPAG) named Veronica Lee, formerly of 401(k) Advisors, Senior Vice President of Client Service.  

Wasatch Advisors announced that it intends to close the Wasatch Small Cap Growth Fund (WAAEX) to new investors through most third party intermediary platforms as of January 31,...