Newsdash Insight on Plan Design & Investment Strategy from PLANSPONSOR
April 7th, 2015
2015 Best in Class 401(k) Plans
2015 Best in Class 401(k) Plans
PLANSPONSOR is pleased to announce its inaugural selection of companies for its Best in Class 401(k) Plans designation. Recipients of the 2015 Best in Class 401(k) Plans designation were selected from more than 4,500 plans responding to PLANSPONSOR’s annual Defined Contribution (DC) Survey. 401(k) plans were evaluated and scored on more than 30 criteria related to plan design, oversight/governance, and participant outcomes.Read more >
Benefits & Administration
The funded status of the typical U.S. corporate pension plan declined 0.4 percentage points in March to 87.2%, according to the BNY Mellon Investment Strategy and Solutions Group (ISSG). The BNY Mellon Institutional Scorecard showed that for the typical U.S. corporate plan, assets in March decreased 0.5%, while liabilities fell 0.1% as the Aa corporate discount rate rose two basis points to 3.86%. Public plans and foundations and endowments also saw assets decrease.Read more >
What American investors say they will do and what they actually wind up doing to save for retirement shows a big gap, according to an Edward Jones retirement age survey. Nearly half (45%) of non-retired Americans are not saving for retirement. Of those not yet saving, only 36% plan to do so in the future and nearly 10% say they never plan on saving for retirement.Read more >
Products, Deals & People
Retirement and benefit consulting and administration firm, USI Consulting Group announces an addition to its retirement services team. Based in Oak Brook, Illinois, Lou Ressler has joined the team as vice president.Read more >
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