PLANSPONSOR Magazine

ETF Focus |

ETMFs: A New Option

Strategic Insight’s quarterly exchange-traded fund analysis
Compliance Update |

Rules and Regulations

Summaries of the latest news from Washington and the courts—what's coming, what's contemplated and what's critical for plan sponsors to know.
UpFront |

Employees Need HDHP Education

Despite year-over-year increases between 2014 and 2016 in the number of U.S. workers enrolled in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP) with a savings component, 63% of employees are...
UpFront |

401(k) Record Levels Reached

Contributions to, and balances in, 401(k) plans, as well as individual retirement accounts (IRAs), reached record levels on its platform last year, Fidelity Investments reports. 401(k) balances averaged...
UpFront |

No Strangers to In-Plan Income Products

While 401(k) plan sponsors are hesitant about adding systematic withdrawals at retirement, 403(b) plans have been using them all along. According to the 2016 PLANSPONSOR Defined Contribution (DC)...
UpFront |

Long-Term Return Assumptions Reduced Again, for 2017

Sharing data from their “2017 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions” report, J.P. Morgan Asset Management researchers say they expect marginally tougher investing conditions this year, continuing the trend of...
UpFront |

Look Carefully ‘Under the Hood’ of TDFs

A new issue brief from the Center for Retirement Research (CRR) at Boston College takes a “look under the hood” of the target-date fund (TDF) market, finding, in...
DB Plan Q&A |

Constitutional Standing

A plaintiff must establish a traceable injury in order to bring legal action
ERISA Examination |

The Lowdown

A retirement plan committee road map.