Administration | May 13th, 2024 Fidelity Investments Reorganizes Rutland Square Trust II Fidelity is seeking agreement from shareholders to reorganize funds offered through Fidelity Personal & Workplace Advisors LLC by RIA Strategic...
Products | February 8th, 2024 Investment Product and Service Launches Voya officially launches dual QDIA; MassMutual introduces first sub-advised municipal bond strategy and selects sub-adviser; SEI signs on as trustee...
Administration | January 2nd, 2024 Plan Sponsors Should Be Intentional When Adding Managed Accounts Standard benchmarking may not yet cover such offerings, but plan sponsors can monitor participant satisfaction, plans’ stated objectives.
Investing | October 25th, 2023 Managed Accounts Provide Personalized Investments but Some Sponsors Hesitant to Offer Despite the many advantages of managed accounts, plan sponsors still have reservations due to concerns about fees, litigation and participant...
Products | April 27th, 2023 Investment Product and Service Launches Nationwide adds in-plan guarantee for managed accounts; Alto announces capital-raising platform to tap IRA Funds; and more.
Data and Research | March 23rd, 2023 Retirement Is Going to Change—But How? Although plan sponsors and financial professionals foresee some differences, they all expect changes to the retirement industry by 2030.
Products | June 23rd, 2021 Bank of America Launches Digital Investment Advisory Program The Personal Retirement Strategy program includes a dual 3(21)/3(38) solution for retirement plan sponsors.
Products | December 3rd, 2020 BoA Planning Retirement Plan Managed Account Service for 1Q21 While Bank of America had offered a managed account solution with Morningstar as the investment manager, this is the first...
Products | November 24th, 2020 Nationwide New Business Fee Waiver Extended Through March The firm is also offering plan participants a 90-day trial period of its managed account solution.
Investing | September 22nd, 2020 PSNC 2020: Time to Get Serious About ESG? Environmental, social and governance investing is slowing becoming pervasive in DC plans, particularly as Millennials are poised to become the...
Data and Research | March 14th, 2019 DC Plan Sponsors Increasingly Adding Participant Investing Help Use of managed accounts, target-date funds, individual advice and automatic placement into a qualified default investment alternative are on the...
Data and Research | January 28th, 2019 DC Plan Sponsors Want Retirees/Terminated Employees to Remain in Their Plans More than 60% of employers want to keep retirees in their plan, and 33% prefer that terminated employees keep their...
Administration | December 20th, 2018 Mercer Sets Goals for DC Plans for the Coming Year They are centered around three key themes: 1) Secure your foundation, 2) Achieve greater prosperity and 3) Inspire confidence.
Administration | October 29th, 2018 Retirement Plan Design Options Can Help With Individual’s Savings Concerns The Standard recommends automatic plan features as well as managed accounts.
Data and Research | August 13th, 2018 Plan Sponsors Changing Plan Designs, Investments to Improve Participant Retirement Outcomes Preparing participants financially to be able to retire beat out reducing plan costs as plan sponsors' top concern in this...
Data and Research | May 17th, 2018 Recent Dip in Average Fidelity Account Balance Belies Long-Term Trend Average individual 401(k), 403(b) and IRA account balances increased year-over-year, according to the latest cut of data from Fidelity’s book...
Investing | March 13th, 2018 Managed Accounts, TDFs and Questions About ‘Alpha’ One of the most common approaches to valuing managed account services is to compare historical investment performance with a target-date...