Tag: Defined Contribution (DC)

June 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Real estate has a place in defined contribution (DC) plans, the Defined Contribution Real Estate...

June 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement plan participation and savings rates are rising due to adoption of automatic plan features,...

June 6, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The retirement readiness levels of employees in the public sector may not be as high...

June 5, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total retirement outsourcing (TRO) can benefit employers that sponsor both a defined benefit (DB) and...

June 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Other than automatic enrollment in a retirement plan and automatic escalation of employee deferrals into...

June 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The concept of “retirement plan health” means different things for plan sponsors and participants, but...

June 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – At the PLANSPONSOR National Conference in Chicago, four leading experts debated the merits of target-date...

June 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Dallas Salisbury fields a lot of questions about how to define retirement plan success in...

June 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On the first day of the PLANSPONSOR National Conference (PSNC) in Chicago, current and former...

June 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) –The industry faces challenges from several directions, and retirement plan executives discussed ways to address them,...

June 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – With so much regulatory complexity surrounding defined contribution (DC) retirement plans, it is not unusual...

May 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - People expect to work longer and flexibility will become the new model for retirement, finds...

May 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The average retirement plan participant’s decision to leave 401(k) assets in-plan or actuate a distribution...

May 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A paper from Towers Watson recommends, for defined contribution (DC) plans, up to 25% of...

May 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Financial technology provider RiskFirst, formerly PensionsFirst, has expanded the focus of its pension risk analytics...

May 23, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Witnesses at a Senate hearing discussed Social Security reforms that could boost potential retirement income...

May 14, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new advisory program from Merrill Lynch helps individuals assemble and compare competing financial concerns...

May 13, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Small business owners and human resources staffers can save nearly $1,000 in waived 401(k) plan...

May 13, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Showing plan participants how well and how much their best-performing peers save is highly motivating, Putnam...

May 13, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many defined contribution retirement plan participants are not using target-date funds (TDFs) as designed.