Setting defaults too low, choosing the wrong default investment and offering company stock as an investment option could result in unintended consequences, BlackRock found.
According to the firms, StoryLine’s approach “recognizes that every plan sponsor and employee is unique.”
Only 33% of Americans are comfortable with their retirement readiness level.
How Hearst Corp. followed a prudent process to choose its qualified default investment alternative.
BlackRock Managing Director Anne Ackerley, in conversation with PLANSPONSOR, explains new opportunities to deliver retirement income solutions to plan participants, including through the QDIA.
In partnership with AllianceBernstein and Personal Capital, WealthSpark’s investment recommendations are based on up to 18 individualized data points cultivated through Personal Capital’s technology.
A TDF may invest its assets into index-based securities that do not make tactical adjustments as the markets change—but the act of managing even an index-based portfolio according to a glide path that ramps down equity risk over time will always be at least in part fundamentally “active.”
Despite an ongoing plan sponsor investment unbundling trend, the majority of TDF providers continue to construct their TDF portfolios using proprietary funds as the underlying investments.
A blueprint from the Insured Retirement Institute offers a guide for its dialogue with Congress and the Administration about improving Americans’ retirement outlook.
“The world is moving toward big data, and thus far as an industry we haven’t been able to use big data in a meaningful way. We are now in the midst of a paradigm shift that will allow plan sponsors to make data-driven decisions in an entirely new way,” says Thomas Idzorek, with Morningstar Investment Management.
The solution offers three levels of risk within the same TDF family, leveraging exchange-traded funds wrapped within collective investment trusts to keep costs as low as possible.
Readers of a new publication from Research and Markets are taken step by step through ERISA regulations to help ensure that their plans are properly structured, qualified and implemented.
Research from Fidelity suggests personalized, goals-based advice pairs well with the use of managed accounts.
PIMCO indicates an active fixed-income strategy could pose some opportunities in the current and future market.