Lively Brings Personalized Investment Guidance to its HSA

The new feature is powered by Devenir.

Lively has added personalized investment guidance, powered by Devenir, which specializes in investment solutions for health-based accounts, to its health savings accounts (HSAs). Already, more than one-fifth of Lively’s HSA account holders invest their HSA funds, compared with the industry average of just 4%.

Now, Lively account holders will have access to personalized investment guidance that can help them capitalize on the HSA’s unique tax advantages with no investment threshold.

Lively says now, more than even, it is important to remove barriers to investing so the millions of Americans with HSAs can work toward their long-term savings goals, such as retirement.

“Investing should be accessible to all HSA account holders, so we’re thrilled to add HSA Guided Portfolio to our already robust offering,” says Alex Cyriac, CEO and co-founder of Lively. “This new feature adds more flexibility to our investment suite and provides a more hands-off option. By offering industry-leading investment solutions, we help each account holder make their money go further by investing in the way that is right for them.”

HSA Guided Portfolio will provide each HSA account holder a suggested portfolio mix based on their profile, risk preferences and time horizon. The account holder then allocates funds from a curated menu of low-cost funds across diverse asset classes. The portfolio is automatically rebalanced.

Lively says approximately 1.2 million American are investing a portion of their HSAs but that this number is expected to grow and exceed $20 billion by 2021.

Ascensus Creates Mobile Retirement Savings App

The READYSAVE app will leverage behavioral prompts to drive better outcomes.

Ascensus has launched the READYSAVE retirement mobile application, which will leverage behavioral prompts and situational guidance to help drive better retirement outcomes. It was developed on Ascensus’ proprietary technology platform for use across the firm’s various institutional partners and is available to all participants at plans in which Ascensus is the recordkeeper. The aim is to help participants get on track to retirement readiness.

In developing the app, Ascensus sought feedback from institutional partners and advisers in its Elite Advisor program.

“Our goal for our participant experience aligns with that of our plan sponsor clients, institutional partners and financial adviser partners: to enable more savers to save more,” says Carl Negin, Ascensus’ chief marketing officer. “READYSAVE helps deliver on this goal, giving participants the information they need to chart the appropriate savings strategy.”

READYSAVE is available in both English and Spanish. It also features accessibility for visually impaired users. Users can check their account balances, view their rate of return and plan investments, change their savings rates and review their recent account activity. Ascensus plans to continually adjust and improve the application, based on user analytics and feedback.

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