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What defines a good, or great, retirement plan? And how is a plan determined to be successful? Our PLANSPONSOR awards...

Wedged into retirement plan industry professionals’ collective consciousness are certain essential criteria that make for a good defined contribution (DC)...

Does your firm formally educate its plan committee? How often is education supplied, and does this education include fiduciary training?

Benchmarking anything can be tricky. Comparing fine restaurant cuisine with fast food or a high performance sports car with a minivan ignores important context—context that could change your...

Millennials need to understand their longer investing time horizon allows them to handle more market risk and even provides certain...

Changes to maximum loan amounts and number of loans, as well as the imposition of fees and higher interest rates...

Many plan sponsors fear being a trendsetter, but United World College-USA is proud of using ESG investing themes in its...

Just as defined contribution (DC) plan sponsors were once concerned about automatically enrolling employees in the plan when they didn’t actively select it, they have hesitations about using...

It’s important to know how different employee groups are benefitting from a defined contribution (DC) plan so unique issues can be addressed.

Jack Bogle set out to prove that mutual funds could operate independently, and do so in a manner that would directly benefit their shareholders; he said this was...

Millennials in particular found some terms difficult to understand, such as: 63%Millennialrespondents 44%Total respondents 88%Millennialrespondents 76%Total respondents Plan participant Defined contribution retirement plan According to survey responses*, participants’...

Strategies to Manage Retirement Timing Source: Willis Towers Watson, 2018 Longer Working Careers Survey Baby Boomers vs. Generation X What each group has saved or plans to save...

Delegating tasks to a 3(16) administrator can keep a plan ‘clean.'

Behavioral strategies to make that future time seem more real.

A Rolex watch vs. a phone charger.

Providers introduce guarantees.

A plan sponsor offers a benefit that helps ease financial stress.