Tag: 401k

August 13, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Small 401(k) plans often outperform large ones on a number of key metrics, according to...

August 12, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – More than four in ten (43%) employees surveyed by Fidelity Investments say they would settle...

August 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – July was light in trading activity for defined contribution plans, with only 0.019% of balances...

August 6, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Guardian Insurance & Annuity Company, Inc. (GIAC) released a new tool to help financial...

August 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – While the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) does not require retirement plan sponsors to...

July 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Plan sponsors need to carefully consider their options when it comes to choosing a third-party...

July 22, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A secure retirement is achievable, research says, if retirement plan participants start saving early and...

July 22, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As plan advisers and plan sponsors, we have to somehow get our plan participants to...

July 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The average participant in the U.S. defined contribution (DC) retirement system is 43 years old...

July 18, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Savings in defined contribution (DC) retirement plan accounts recordkept by Fidelity grew 12.9% in the...

July 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Fifty-five percent of retirement plan participants favor automatic annual increases to their account contributions.

July 14, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Participants of 401(k) plans saw lower expense ratios when investing in long-term mutual funds during...

July 14, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Nearly eight in 10 (78%) workers feel personally responsible for retirement savings, according to the...

July 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined contribution retirement plan sponsors in the health care industry are becoming more proactive in...

July 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New York Life Retirement Plan Services has released an interactive Retirement Readiness Dashboard to help...

July 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Rolling assets out of a plan is a broad area that affects plan advisers, consultants,...

July 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Employees who improve their financial knowledge have a better chance of improving the investment returns...

July 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A lot can be learned about retirement plan investor behavior from the simplest of actions,...

July 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Researchers at St. Louis, Missouri’s Washington University have found a connection between good retirement savings...

July 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Nearly one in four investors say they aren’t sure why they haven’t sought professional financial...