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“Ten thousand Baby Boomers are turning 65 every day,” says Catherine Collinson, president of the Los Angeles-based Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies. “It is a problem begging to...

Some quotes, survey statistics and musings to use in employee communications, or just as a break in the grind.

Navigating the many steps in DC retirement plan administration

“Everybody is always trying to talk about the demise of stable value,” says Chris Tobe, principal at Louisville, Kentucky-based Stable Value Consultants. 

If you could step into a time machine and go back to 1993, says Trisha Brambley, president of Retirement Playbook Inc. in New Hope, Pennsylvania, you would see...

The 401(k) defined contribution (DC) plan has its origins as part of the 1978 Tax Reform Act, where it languished in obscurity until 1980, when benefits consultant Ted...

As some advisers have become increasingly focused on supporting plan sponsors—and, hence, their scope of advisory work has narrowed—the responsibilities they engage in for retirement plans have increased,...

Risk transfer is on the minds of many defined benefit (DB) plan sponsors, but, with the current economic environment, it is more often planned for than actually done,...

There has been a major shift in how defined benefit (DB) plans distribute benefits. 

How DB investment selection can change plan outcomes 

The big news in defined contribution (DC) distribution options for the last year is that there really is no news. 

Technology is not just something that provides a competitive edge for defined benefit (DB) custodians—it has become the essence of their survival. 

In the aftermath of the financial shake-up five years ago, many defined benefit (DB) plan sponsors ended or paused their securities lending activities. 

For pension plans, allocation to alternative investments often comes down to diversification of equity risk while trying to meet their assumed rates of return. 

Education for 401(k) participants has changed considerably in 20 years. 

Some might say that retirement plan design has come full circle. 

Finding the best options in a field of DC plan designs 

2013 Plan Sponsors of the Year: Corporate 401(k) >$50MMSanofi U.S. Corporate 401(k) <$50MMJacobs Entertainment Inc. Defined BenefitBaystate Health Public Defined ContributionState of Missouri Deferred Compensation Plan 403(b)Mayo Clinic...

Congratulations to the 2013 PLANSPONSOR Plan Sponsors of the Year! I am very pleased to introduce them, and those selected as finalists, in this issue.

GAO explores use of MEPs