Data and Research

Retirement savings levels needed for those with cancer, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and other health issues vary considerably from the general population—and from patient to patient.

Institutions that partner with retirement plan advisers or consultants have more effective retirement benefit programs.

The firm says multiemployer DC plan trustees can benchmark their plans against Segal’s client database.

Eighty-one percent of employees would be less likely to leave a company that was helping them improve their financial standing.

Millennials and those with balances lower than $20,000 are at the greatest risk for cashing out.

California teachers do better with a defined benefit plan than a 401(k), research shows. 

Households oppose changing tax incentives for retirement saving, says an ICI survey.

Word is this Super Bowl will be Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning’s last game before retiring.

A positive economic outlook and implications of the ACA have small business owners focusing more on retirement benefits.

The number one reason Millennials invest is to have an emergency/“rainy day” fund, a survey finds.

While three-quarters of pre-retirees and retirees have some kind of financial retirement plan, only 16% have a formal written retirement plan, a LIMRA study found.

If today’s working-age households had the same level of student debt as those recently leaving college, an additional 4.6% would be at risk of having inadequate income in...

Seven in 10 African-American investors cite workplace retirement plans as a contributing reason for becoming an investor.

Researchers analyzed whether it is realistic to expect that older individuals will be able to work longer.

Help with student loans joins retirement, health and vacation benefits as a priority.

As employer retirement and health care benefits become less generous (and early retirement incentives become rarer), employers wield less direct influence over their employees’ retirement decisions.

Ongoing withdrawals from savings could jeopardize people’s future, LIMRA says.

While employees plan to work longer and gradually phase into not working at all, most employers do not have policies in place to facilitate those desires.

Target-date funds and other QDIAs are often thought of as set-it and forget-it investments, but new data from J.P. Morgan Asset Management highlights some troubling behaviors among participants...

The conventional thinking about generational differences is not as useful as considering retirement plan participants at their stage in the retirement planning timeline.