Tag: QDIA

It can improve participants’ portfolio construction, asset allocation and also participant outcomes. So what should advisers tell reluctant plan sponsors about auto re-enrollment?

“While we as advisers understand a lot of pieces of the puzzle, the plan sponsor doesn’t,” Keith Gredys, CEO and president of Kidder Benefits Consultants Inc., told attendees...

A recent white paper examined how improved transparency with target-date funds would help retirement plan fiduciaries better understand the funds’ holdings.

While stable value funds are popular with retirement plan sponsors, more education about them is needed, a study found.

By and large, 401(k) plans have been a success. 

Reenrollment in a QDIA can help improve plan diversification, according to a Vanguard research paper.

MFS Investment Management added five funds to its Lifetime Funds target-date suite, now offering funds in five-year increments through 2055. 

Although plan sponsors report high satisfaction levels with their current QDIA (qualified default investment alternatives) investment managers, opportunities exist for aspiring managers to differentiate themselves.  

Last week the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued two reports focused on 401(k) plans. 

Believe it or not, PLANADVISER Magazine is five years old this year. 

Financial Engines has rolled out what it calls “the first retirement income solution designed specifically for 401(k) plans.” 

Litigation—or more accurately, the fear of litigation—frequently serves to put us on notice.  

In a live Web chat discussing the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration’s (EBSA) Semiannual Regulatory Agenda, Assistant Secretary of Labor Phyllis C. Borzi said the Agency will...

Federal regulators on Monday released a long-awaited rule to require more disclosures about target-date funds.

Thanksgiving has been called a “uniquely American” holiday, and one on which, IMHO, it is fitting to reflect on all for which we have to...

I’ve long had an issue with weight scales, for the perhaps obvious reason that, these days, they frequently deliver a message I’d just as soon not receive.   

A new report finds that while many participants aren’t yet on track to meet their retirement savings goals, a combination of plan design changes and...

Since the Department of Labor issued its regulations on qualified default investment alternatives (QDIAs), target-date funds have been favored as a QDIA selection for plan sponsors.

Standard Retirement Services has announced the launch of enhanced retirement plan solutions.