Newsdash Insight on Plan Design & Investment Strategy from PLANSPONSOR
August 19th, 2019

Options for Providing Student Loan Repayment Benefits Increasing

Paying off student loan debt helps employees be able to save for retirement—some benefits allow for both at the same time—and more options for providing this benefit have been introduced.Read more >
From the Magazine
A Balancing Act
In the factory, we manufacture cosmetics. In the stores, we sell hope,” makeup magnate Charles Revson, creator of Revlon, is said to have often declared. Sponsors of defined contribution (DC) retirement plans, and their consultants and advisers, face a similar contrast: They perform rigorous analyses of the processes, cultures and results of investment managers and then hope the firms can live up to expectations with outperformance of their benchmarks. “But nobody has a crystal ball—nobody can see how well a manager will do in the future,” says Ryan Gardner, managing partner and senior consultant at Fiduciary Investment Advisors.Read more >
Products, Deals and People
Startup Focuses on Connecting Employees With Primary Care
Employees that do not get good primary care drive up employer health costs, so a former hospital administrator started a marketplace to help employers encourage primary care use.Read more >
Retirement Industry People Moves
AndCo names new senior consultant; Private equity director joins Hirtle Callaghan; Empower Retirement selects chief product officer; and more.Read more >
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