Thought Leadership Round-Up Brought to you by PLANSPONSOR
PLANSPONSOR is pleased to present the next edition of our Thought Leadership Round-Up newsletter. Here we feature articles, whitepapers, and Videos from thought leaders in the industry. The content is intended to help plan sponsors gain a deeper understanding of nascent trends and provide key insights and analysis on the retirement benefits space.
FEATURED ARTICLES
Published in PLANSPONSOR
Risk within target-date funds
The biggest risk to target-date funds isn’t what you’d expect
Sponsored by Vanguard
Published in PLANSPONSOR
Fixed income: How active do you want to go?
Challenges to bond fund returns include rising rates, slow growth, political uncertainty, demand constraints and more. That’s why many defined contribution (DC) plan sponsors are exploring whether their plan’s fixed-income choices are sufficient to meet the needs of participants.
Sponsored by BlackRock
Published in PLANSPONSOR
The Costs of Student Loan Debt at Work
Student loans play a greater role in workplace financial wellness and employee health than plan sponsors might anticipate.
Sponsored by Fidelity Investments
FEATURE WHITEPAPERS
Published in PLANSPONSOR
Protecting Your Retirement Plan from Lawsuits
How to effectively design & implement retirement plan oversight functions and minimize lawsuit risk.
Sponsored by PlanPILOT
FEATURED WEBCAST
Published in PLANSPONSOR
New Research Reveals Key Actions for Plan Sponsors

Wells Fargo Asset Management collaborated with Gallup on proprietary research that explored investor perspectives on ESG and retirement income investing.

Join the live webinar to turn our insights into actions. Enhance participant financial well-being with action steps you can use to begin implementing ESG and retirement income investing options in your plans.

Sponsored by Wells Fargo Asset Management
Published in PLANSPONSOR
Innovations in Financial Wellness: A Fresh Look at Health Savings Accounts & Decumulation
This webcast will discuss innovation and the world of financial wellness, including how Health Savings Accounts are becoming a part of the retirement conversation. The session will also cover how the combination of innovative DC plan design and investment solutions can help meet the unique objectives of participants approaching or in retirement.
Sponsored by GRP Advisor Alliance
Published in PLANSPONSOR
2018 Retirement Plan Trends and Retirement Security ~ An Inflection Point
In a very special forum—free and exclusively for plan sponsors—the editors of PLANSPONSOR and PLANADVISER magazines invite you to join industry experts, including one of the nation’s leading institutional investment consultants, one of the largest and most successful retirement plan record-keepers & asset managers, and one of the nation’s top benefits attorney.
Sponsored by IIC
Published in PLANSPONSOR
2018 Retirement Plan Trends and Regulatory Updates
In a very special forum—free and exclusively for plan sponsors—the editors of PLANSPONSOR and PLANADVISER magazines invite you to join industry experts, including one of the nation’s leading institutional investment consultants, one of the largest and most successful retirement plan record-keepers & asset managers, and one of the nation’s top benefits attorney.
Sponsored by IIC
Published in PLANSPONSOR
Innovating to Address the Unarticulated Needs of Participants
As participants age, their financial needs and contexts evolve. While early-career participants may be treated as a more homogenous group, late-career participants’ situations become more unique and more complex. However, many participants are not aware of exactly what their changing retirement planning needs are. In the spirit of seeking better outcomes, we ought to consider how to meet these often unarticulated needs. That’s what innovation is all about.
Sponsored by Franklin Templeton Investments
FEATURED VIDEO
Financial Wellness Trends
Sponsored by Ayco
Differentiating Glide Path Strategies
Sponsored by John Hancock Investments
Plan Cost & Missing Participants
Sponsored by Voya Financial
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