Tag: Defined Contribution (DC)

Younger and less tenured employees are more likely to satisfy the minimum diversification goal.

One-sixth of small business plans served by Vanguard have adopted automatic enrollment, and most chose to reenroll participants in a...

Research shows financial wellness and retirement education can be beneficial even for employees who are already ostensibly knowledgeable about finances.

“We are reaching out to our clients and pointing out that over the long term, the world survives. These short-term...

The Retirement Savings Lost and Found Act aims at simplifying the process of first locating and then consolidating abandoned defined...

Forty-five percent of participants believe their DC plans will not help them meet their retirement goals, according to a Prudential...

According to ICI research, the vast majority of those who started the year with a DC plan account continued contributing...

Keeping it simple for participants, paying attention to fees, and considering money market reform are transforming DC plan investment menus.

Leaders at Morningstar, BlackRock and John Hancock discussed retirement industry trends and challenges.

Litigation is the main concern for DC plan sponsors right now.

Many parents put the interests of their children far ahead of their own retirement savings needs.

Boomers aren't doing that much better.

The investment firm is meeting individually with Senators and Congressmen on its new national policy proposal.

Still, only 41% of large companies use automatic enrollment.

The industry has made much more headway on improving participant portfolio construction, says Jean Young with the Vanguard Center for...

Four in 10 Americans age 50 or older plan to take Social Security before full retirement age

For the first time, the desire to reduce fees and expenses outranks underperformance as the most common reason for dropping...

A few simple tactics improved employee engagement with DC plans, Bank of America Merrill Lynch finds.

However, the rise of automatic enrollment has had an inverse effect on deferral rates, according to the latest How America...

Federal law would require all private sector employers to offer a retirement savings plan.