| | Editor’s Note | | PLANSPONSOR is pleased to bring you this special edition of NewsDash sponsored by BlackRock, focused on financial wellness. | | | Increasing Long-Term Financial Wellness | | Build for Retirement in a Low-Return World | | Retirement outcomes are the result of contributions, investment returns, costs and time. If one of these factors changes, what could that mean for plan participants? Unfortunately for today’s savers, analysts believe we may be in an era of reduced market returns—and could be for some time. Low returns could put a real dent in retirement savings. DC plan participants need action and guidance from their plan sponsors to prepare for potentially low returns—including a review of plan design features, investment strategies and retirement polices and goals.Read more > | | Target-Date Funds Just Got Smarter | | As we face an environment of anticipated lower returns, are there opportunities for plan sponsors to tap the full potential of target date funds? We spoke to Matthew O’Hara, PhD, CFA, Global Head of the Lifetime Asset Allocation Group at BlackRock, for insight on changes BlackRock is making to evolve the investment strategies of the LifePath mutual funds series.Read more > |
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