What options do participants have when a natural disaster affects them, and are there steps plan sponsors can take to reduce the impact on retirement savings?
A new survey from Alight Solutions indicates more employers are expanding distribution options in their DC retirement plans to help employees with draw down strategies in retirement.
It’s time for many plan sponsors to determine what rate they will use to calculate unfunded vested benefits, and they also should carefully consider whether to use legislation-provided...
An analysis found monitoring DC plan investment menus and making necessary changes results in better performance, and researchers have followed up with four pitfalls to avoid when making...
Struggling with debt and budgeting, Gen Xers are in their prime earning years, they are getting close to retirement and they are taking care of both their children...
Pension plans that have invested in long bonds would have benefited, according to Northern Trust Asset Management, and Legal and General Investment Management America suggests market volatility can...
Educating employees about the power of time on their savings, encouraging them to log into their retirement plan accounts and starting them at a higher deferral rate are...
However, most are offering systematic withdrawals, lifetime education and planning tools, and in-plan managed account services; they are still leery of offering guaranteed income solutions such as annuities.
“As in years past, we’re taking the responsible action of lowering our assumed rate of return now so we can better weather market volatility,” New York State Comptroller...
Whether or not it’s by issuing an RFP, sources agree that plan sponsors whose recordkeeper is being acquired or merged with another should do some investigating into the...
“Plan sponsors should review their risk management toolkit to consider whether their investment policy is aligned with the current market environment and to explore potential risk transfer activity,”...
Not having proper beneficiary designations on file can create a difficult situation for plan sponsors, and with the use of automatic enrollment, fewer participants are revealing their beneficiaries.
Elliot Health System made the statement that “financial challenges in health care have led the vast majority of health care employers to make this decision years before we...