Ask the Experts | April 2nd, 2024 Does Our Plan Fall Under SECURE 2.0’s Automatic Enrollment Requirement? Experts from Groom Law Group and CAPTRUST answer questions concerning retirement plan administration and regulations.
Benefits | March 26th, 2024 BlackRock CEO Says Concept of Retirement Has to Change Annual letter to investors says, "Humanity has changed over the past 120 years. So must our conception of retirement."
Products | March 25th, 2024 The 3-Letter Plan Type You Haven’t Heard of Defined Contribution Groups—DCGs—offer another option for sponsors seeking to simplify some administrative tasks.
Benefits | March 14th, 2024 In PEPs, Attaining Economy of Scale Is Critical, Sometimes Illusive While the pooled plan providers, sponsors of multiple employer plans, continue to see asset inflows, for sponsors, joining a PEP...
Investing | March 8th, 2024 Measure Allowing CIT Use in 403(b) Plans Advances in the House The legislation is a first step to allowing the lower-cost investments' use in nonprofits and school retirement plans.
Benefits | March 6th, 2024 Dawn Foods Boosts Employer 401(k) Matching Contribution Michigan-based Dawn Foods Inc. changed its contribution matching formula to increase the total and reduce participants’ confusion.
Benefits | March 1st, 2024 Can Multiple Employer Plans Help Close the Retirement Coverage Gap? Advertised as a more cost-efficient and less burdensome way for small employers to offer a retirement plan, pooled solutions may...
Benefits | February 26th, 2024 Four Sponsors Add Fidelity’s Student Loan Debt Repayment Matching Benefit A luxury goods company, media company, beauty retailer and media and entertainment company are all employers implementing student loan debt...
Administration | February 23rd, 2024 2024 PS Webinar: SECURE 2.0 Catching Up with Catch-Ups Plan sponsors, recordkeepers and payroll providers face many challenges when it comes to implementing the SECURE 2.0 provision requiring certain...
Products | February 22nd, 2024 Investment Product and Service Launches LifeYield releases Annuity Income Layer; NAGDCA offers enhanced SECURE 2.0 Resource; and Voya launches new supplemental health benefit to help with...
Compliance | February 20th, 2024 Comments Challenge IRS Interpretation of Automatic Features, Roth Matching, Other Provisions The IRS December grab bag notice provisions on de minimis incentives and terminally ill distributions also received some pushback from...
Data and Research | February 12th, 2024 Education Savings Benefits Gain Momentum as Employees Struggle With Student Debt As loan repayments are an obstacle limiting employees’ retirement savings, education savings benefits are an opportunity for employers to relieve...
Compliance | February 9th, 2024 What Could Taxing 401(k)s Look Like? And How Likely Is It? A few informal proposals have been made in recent years, and none got very far.
Compliance | February 5th, 2024 Small Businesses Don’t Know About Plan Creation Tax Credits, per EBRI That’s despite citing profitability and plan cost among their chief reasons for not starting a plan.
Benefits | February 5th, 2024 529, ABLE Qualified Tuition Plans Reach $470B After Big Q4 Inflows In 2023’s fourth quarter, the number of tax-preferred education savings and prepaid accounts rose to 16.4 million.
Products | February 1st, 2024 New PEP Made Available by Ascensus, American Funds The pooled employer plan is live from one of the country’s biggest PEP administrators alongside a leading TDF provider.
Compliance | January 31st, 2024 Whatever Happened to CITs in 403(b)s? It’s still a work in progress, as a legislative proposal makes its way through Congress.
Ask the Experts | January 30th, 2024 How Does the New Distribution Provision for Terminal Illness Work? Experts from Groom Law Group and CAPTRUST answer questions concerning retirement plan administration and regulations.
Compliance | January 26th, 2024 Stakeholders Ask for Enforcement Delay on Part-Time Eligibility Rules SECURE 2.0 requires part-timers to be made eligible for elective contributions after two years of service.
Compliance | January 25th, 2024 Pension-Linked Emergency Accounts Can Incentivize Lower-Income Enrollment PLESAs can address liquidity concerns for workers, one of SECURE 2.0’s co-authors argued at the EBRI-Milken Retirement Symposium.