Data and Research | December 8th, 2015 Creditworthiness, Fees Important to Stable Value Fund Selection A study looked at considerations important to DC retirement plan sponsors in selecting a stable value product.
Data and Research | December 7th, 2015 Experts Predict a New Standard for DC Plan Design More plan sponsors will use automatic enrollment, and at a higher default rate.
Data and Research | December 3rd, 2015 Why Workers Retire Earlier Than Planned Health is the top driver of early retirement, research finds.
Data and Research | December 3rd, 2015 How to Make Participants Into Millionaires It’s a question many people ask themselves during a working career: What would it take for a middle class person to save a million dollars?
Data and Research | December 2nd, 2015 Retirees Share Realities with Younger Generations Workers should save more, earlier to prepare for retiring sooner than planned and to meet the competing financial priorities in retirement.
Data and Research | December 2nd, 2015 Gen X Wants Richer Retirement Benefits While other generations would prefer more vacation time, Generation X would value richer retirement benefits, a survey finds.
Data and Research | December 2nd, 2015 Many Doctors Not Saving Well for Retirement Nearly half of physicians believe they cannot afford to max out their workplace retirement savings plan.
Data and Research | December 1st, 2015 Managed Accounts May Suit Some Participants While target-date funds may hold the most contributions, they can still co-exist with managed accounts..
Data and Research | December 1st, 2015 Public Pensions Face Imminent Funding Challenges Flat returns, lowered assumptions and changing participant demographics will erode funded ratios, according to a report from Milliman.
Data and Research | December 1st, 2015 Shifting Demographics a Challenge for Multiemployer Plans Plans continue to gain financial stability, but changing participant demographics threaten to derail this in the future.
Data and Research | December 1st, 2015 Investors Choose Guarantees Over Growth Eighty-one percent would prefer a product with a guaranteed 4% return.
Data and Research | November 30th, 2015 Current Tax Treatment Benefits Employees Across Income Scale A new whitepaper argues workers across the income spectrum get a pretty even shake when it comes to retirement benefits.
Data and Research | November 25th, 2015 Moody’s Predicts PBGC Premiums Will Become Unaffordable The situation looks especially dire for multiemployer pension plans, the ratings agency says.
Data and Research | November 24th, 2015 Mobile Offerings for Retirement Plan Participants Increasing In the past year, more retirement plan providers have launched new mobile applications or enhanced their existing mobile platforms.
Data and Research | November 23rd, 2015 Participants Lose Out With Focus on Student Debt A new LIMRA study finds workers who choose to pay down debt over saving for retirement fall way behind their peers by age 65.
Data and Research | November 23rd, 2015 Investors Overly Focused on Short-Term Returns Research from TIAA-CREF shows a persistent focus on short-term returns leads to poor decisionmaking.
Data and Research | November 23rd, 2015 Financial Education Is Needed Globally A survey from Standard & Poor’s finds only 57% of U.S. adults are financially literate.
Data and Research | November 20th, 2015 Creature Comforts Keep Gen X, Boomers From Saving for Retirement Gen X’s second-biggest obstacle is saving for their children’s education.
Data and Research | November 19th, 2015 Millennials Face Obstacles to Retirement Saving An unwillingness to sacrifice things they believe add to their present quality of life is one of them.
Data and Research | November 19th, 2015 The Real Story in Retirement Spending Averages EBRI research shows household income is not a good indicator of how spending will shift in the early years after retirement.