Magazine Articles

Presenting a selection of our proprietary research results

How the retirement industry of 2016 will inform 2017

Which design features motivate which plan participants?

How to keep a plan in place

White label funds combine various investment vehicles

How will Trump’s presidency affect employer-sponsored health benefits?  

Strategies for encouraging participants to let their plan accounts grow

Possibilities for the future of the fiduciary rule

Outsourcing investment management functions continues to evolve

The articles readers read the most this year  

Considerations for participants in light of the new fiduciary rule

Committee members need training

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

The ultimate objective needs to be kept in mind

Real estate managers continue to have the largest share of pension fund assets

Plan sponsors have a duty to compare funds having these fees with those not having them

The responses were unexpectedly varied

Career breaks add up, resulting in women spending significantly fewer years in the work force

The analysis suggests that participant behavior is affected by plan rules on partial distributions

But can robots serve effectively as fiduciaries?