Hello, PLANSPONSOR readers! This week our focus is on financial wellness and participant education. Nathan Voris, with Schwab Retirement Plan Services, shares how to create an engagement strategy that addresses those employees who feel they can’t save for retirement, and George Lambert, with LearnVest, discusses what to look for in a financial wellness program provider. Surveys find that retirement plan communications are going digital, employees with employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs) are using these plans to help with financial wellness, and workers’ financial stress costs employers with 10,000 workers $3.3 million a year in lost productivity. Enjoy this edition of PLANSPONSOR Weekend!

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit argue that passive funds would have resulted in better returns net of fees that the actively managed funds offered in the plan.

The lawsuit says the so-called “incentive” Yale offers for participating in the wellness program are in fact a “penalty” that violates non-participants’ right, and it notes that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) withdrew the incentive portions of its wellness program rules.

Some legislative proposals, such as the SECURE Act, may address challenges to retirement income adequacy women face, but there are also things retirement plan sponsors can do.

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