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With private markets investments a bigger focus for 401(k) plans, adoption will hinge on DOL guidance, fee transparency and whether sponsors can defend the fiduciary process.

A sampling of information collected in the 2025 PLANSPONSOR Participant Survey.

Health-E Commerce forms new telehealth collaboration with SmileSet; AllianceBernstein launches AB US Equity ETF; Man Group expands US wealth offering with 2 new ETFs; and more. 

Protecting against scams is a ‘community sport,’ says Sastry Durvasula, TIAA’s chief operating, information and digital officer.

He will serve a key leadership role in the firm's fiduciary and ERISA practice.

Retirement plan sponsors balance digital convenience with participant protections under SECURE 2.0. 

The documents enable plan sponsors to determine additional benefits for employees whose compensation exceeds certain thresholds.

The company has consolidated more than 525,000 retirement savings accounts into existing 401(k) or IRA accounts since 2009.

A schedule to help plan sponsors track important due dates for their retirement plans.

The legislation would require employers which lack a retirement plan but have at least 10 employees to automatically enroll employees in individual retirement accounts.

NEPC’s former defined contribution team leader will make the move on January 5.

‘Into each life some rain must fall,’ says Brian Donohue, a partner in October Three.

Changes affect terminated multiemployer defined benefit plans; plans using a variable annuity benefit formula; and terminated single-employer PBGC-covered plans.

The handoff will likely begin with plan sponsors and payroll providers, but the process becomes more complex after that. 

NFP names chief financial officer; former NYC Pensions CIO moves to Neuberger Berman; ICPM names new managing director; and more. 

The president specifically called for 'strengthening' ERISA fiduciaries' responsibility to act in participants' financial interest. 

The notice shared details about new tax benefits for health savings accounts, including broader eligibility via high-deductible health plans.

Single-premium sales more than tripled in the third quarter of the year.

The bill, which includes more than 20 measures that had progressed out of committee, would ‘level the playing field’ for investments in plans serving educators and nonprofit employees. 

The federal government, via the solicitor general and the DOL, is increasingly favoring employers in ongoing ERISA litigation, including on pension risk transfer transactions.