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ESOPs can help employees amass greater retirement benefits, as well as help business owners keep control in planning for the succession of their business.

Starting early is a key component of Super Savers’ investment strategies. The age respondents began investing in financial markets: Investments...

Over time, with passage of open MEP legislation, sponsors will see a change in service delivery, advisers will have to consider different distribution paths, and providers will experience...

Recordkeeper consolidation is ongoing, but it offers an opportunity for plan sponsors to secure better services and software, and better fees.

The retirement plan industry—especially those who work in the support services (think recordkeepers, investment managers, advisers)—is a relatively small group...

Forty-seven percent of plan sponsors that responded to the 2018 PLANSPONSOR Defined Contribution (DC) Survey offer their employees access to...

Plan sponsors must take as much time as necessary to understand what it means to hire a 3(38) discretionary investment...

A worker’s tenure plays into his eligibility to join and his level of engagement with retirement plans, and for this...

Fiduciaries need more to drive selections than a wish to change the world.

Best practices for protecting plan data.

Those, too, are subject to ERISA.

The retirement plan industry offers various ways to help plan participants develop good investing behaviors. The most basic way to...

Three lawsuits will impact the industry.

Several trends drive the dynamic growth.

Living Up To Expectations African-Americans and Chinese-Americans were the most likely of six ethnic groups surveyed to plan to retire at earlier ages. Further, 74% of African-Americans and...

As one of the judges reviewing the hundreds of nominations and entries for our Plan Sponsor of the Year Awards,...

Despite their advantages, the purpose of defined contribution plans and ability of recordkeeping systems to handle exchange-traded funds' unique traits...

The parties in the long-running case of Tussey v. ABB reached a $55 million settlement—the final result of more than...

Does your firm formally educate its plan committee? How often is education supplied, and does this education include fiduciary training?

Just as defined contribution (DC) plan sponsors were once concerned about automatically enrolling employees in the plan when they didn’t actively select it, they have hesitations about using...