A survey finds many small employers do not offer employees a retirement plan, and few employers that offer retirement plans extend eligibility to part-time workers.
The percentage of employers that default participants at a 6% deferral rate or higher more than doubled in the past decade to 19%, an analysis from Fidelity finds.
TIAA supports offering lifetime income options and makes other plan administrative and design suggestions to alleviate plan sponsors’ concerns about their employees’ retirement outlook.
Preparing participants financially to be able to retire beat out reducing plan costs as plan sponsors' top concern in this year's Fidelity Investments Plan Sponsor Attitudes Study.
“Need the money” (87%) and “to save more for retirement” (84%) are the most commonly selected reasons older workers are working or looking for work, and 9% indicated...
If the hourly wage gap between college and high school graduates continues to grow at its current pace, the impact would reverberate into retirement, research from the Urban...
A study finds employees with access to employer-sponsored plans are most likely to indicate retirement readiness, and the IALC suggests plan sponsors increase education.
Researchers’ analysis of data from the current Consumer Bankruptcy Project suggests that financial struggles, namely a decline in income, was a leading reason for older Americans’ bankruptcies.
While most women surveyed want to grow their investments in retirement, they worry more than men about the risk involved and think they’ll need to adopt a conservative...
A report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch shows employees who do not feel financially well are most concerned about shorter-term financial goals, whereas employees who do feel...
Ninety-eight percent wish there was a way to make up for lost time, but 63% say they cannot take the chance of investing in higher risk financial products.