Newsdash Insight on Plan Design & Investment Strategy from PLANSPONSOR
June 1st, 2015
Benefits & Administration
Nearly four in 10 (38%) large U.S. employers with onsite health facilities plan to add new centers over the next two years, according the Towers Watson 2015 Employer-Sponsored Health Care Centers Survey. A majority of the 120 responding employers that already have onsite or near-site health facilities, or are planning to implement them, share these objectives for their centers: increase productivity (75%); reduce health care costs (74%); and improve convenient employee access to health care services (66%).Read more >
Products, Deals & People
John Hancock Makes Move to Levelize Fees
John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (JHRPS) is entering into a new strategic, multi-phased development agreement with Vertical Management Systems (VMS) of Pasadena, California. The goal of the strategic partnership is to leverage VMS’s trust accounting and trading systems expertise, applying their solutions and technology to bring participant revenue levelization for a variety of investment vehicles—mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), collective investment trusts (CITs)—as a future option on the John Hancock’s Total Retirement Solutions (TRS) recordkeeping platform.Read more >
Sponsored message from Aberdeen
Frontier Market Bonds: The Next Chapter
Learn why frontier markets strong growth dynamics, coupled with historically low correlations to U.S. Treasuries make a compelling case to diversify your fixed income approach with emerging and frontier market debt.Read more >
GAO Requests
Survey on 401(k) Plans’ Use of Eligibility and Vesting Requirements: Building savings in a 401(k) plan is a key step to achieving income security in retirement for millions of Americans. That savings may be affected by the eligibility and vesting requirements that are used by many plans. This survey examines why plan sponsors use certain eligibility and vesting requirements, how they may have changed the requirements, and how they communicate them to employees and participants.Read more >
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