Data and Research | January 18th, 2018 Study Proposes a “Simple” Strategy for Retirement Income “We’re not suggesting things that take a lot of expense—the strategy uses existing tools plan sponsors have as well as...
Administration | January 17th, 2018 A Retirement Draw Down Strategy Starts With Education Plan sponsors need to give participants the education and tools they need to develop a strategy for spending assets in...
Data and Research | January 17th, 2018 Millennials May Have Wrong Expectations About Retirement One-third (34%) of Millennials say they plan to save $200,000 or less to be comfortable in retirement, according to a...
Products | January 11th, 2018 Financial Soundings Solution Supports In-Plan Retirement The firm’s retiree program is designed to provide plan participants the essential guidance needed to manage assets through retirement from...
Data and Research | January 10th, 2018 Debt Management Should Be a Factor in Retirement Security Policy According to an NBER working paper, researchers found it is not just the value of debt for people on the...
Data and Research | January 9th, 2018 CRR Finds Those at Risk for Having Inadequate Retirement Income Dropped All groups of households experienced an improvement in risk, except middle-age and middle-income households, due in part to more non-mortgage...
Compliance | January 2nd, 2018 House Bill Seeks Retirement Plan ‘Simplification and Enhancement’ Alongside numerous changes, the bill seeks to eliminate the current 10% cap on automatically-increased deferral rates of employees who are...
Participants | December 22nd, 2017 EBRI Data Delivers Fresh Retirement Health Care Cost Concerns Retired couples, according to EBRI research, can require up to $370,000 to cover premiums for Medicare Parts B and D,...
Data and Research | December 12th, 2017 Investors Agree Guaranteed Income in Retirement Is Important However, there is confusion about how to get this additional income stream.
Data and Research | December 5th, 2017 Spouses Play a Bigger Part in Retirement Planning The spouse of a married retirement saver inspires one out of five financial planning conversations, and this is growing, according...
Data and Research | November 28th, 2017 Retirees Spending Only About 1% of Assets Each Year More than one in three retirees actually see their assets grow, BlackRock and EBRI found.
Investing | November 22nd, 2017 Experts Push for Sponsor Courage When Offering In-Plan Lifetime Income DOL leadership has stated explicitly that investments with lifetime income elements can be a prudent investment option in DC plans,...
Data and Research | November 10th, 2017 Participants’ Multiple Accounts Makes Measuring Success a Challenge Plan sponsors should be aware that many participants have assets invested with providers that do not serve their current plan,...
Data and Research | November 7th, 2017 What Does It Take to Measure Retirement Income Adequacy? A report by the Congressional Budget Office notes that different measures produce different results and it offers a framework for...
Investing | November 6th, 2017 BMO Finds Demographic Differences in Investing Preferences Respondents across all three generations cite saving and investing for retirement as their primary financial goal; however, Millennials are less...
Administration | November 1st, 2017 Retirement Planners Want to Know How Much They Can Spend The top worry for respondents to a Dimensional Fund Advisors survey is not having enough money to live comfortably in...
Administration | October 31st, 2017 American Academy of Actuaries Joins Advocacy for In-Plan Lifetime Income Options The Academy has released a position statement, joining the GAO and Treasury Department in encouraging the use of lifetime income...
Data and Research | October 23rd, 2017 Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index Urges Countries With Unsustainable Pension Systems to Take Action Now The index’s ninth edition looks at how unsustainable pension systems in some countries need to learn from leading countries or...
Data and Research | October 17th, 2017 Ninety Percent of Investors Like the Idea of Guaranteed Income But only 46% know that annuities offer it, Jackson National Life found in a study done for the Insured Retirement...
Products | October 3rd, 2017 Stadion TDF Launch Offers Multiple Glide Paths The solution offers three levels of risk within the same TDF family, leveraging exchange-traded funds wrapped within collective investment trusts...