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| Editor’s Note |
| Happy New Year! Today, we bring you a special
edition of NewsDash, highlighting the top news stories on PLANSPONSOR.com in
2014. |
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| Benefits & Administration |
| At Distribution Time, What Do Participants Do? |
| Examining how participants decide to leave an
employer’s plan after separating and when they begin taking distributions can
help plan sponsors decide whether to use “to” or “through” target-date funds
(TDFs).Read more > |
| A Retirement Plan Sponsor Uses the Power of Inertia |
| Retirement plan participant inertia has
previously been viewed as a bad thing, but one plan sponsor sees it in a
different way. “For years, employee engagement was a primary goal of our
retirement plan strategy, but we realized it was hard to engage younger
workers. Then a light bulb went on, and we decided to use inertia as an asset
[for our strategy],” Joseph Huber, managing director and chairman of Credit Suisse’s
pension investment committee, tells PLANSPONSOR.Read more > |
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| Products, Deals & People |
| Great-West reached an agreement to acquire the
J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services large-market recordkeeping business. The
acquisition was of interest to Great-West because over the years, J.P. Morgan
has built a great business in the large-plan market, Robert L. Reynolds,
president and chief executive officer of Great-West Lifeco U.S., tells
PLANSPONSOR.Read more > |
