Data and Research | May 29th, 2019 Lack of Emergency Savings Among Biggest Financial Regrets More than half of Americans are disappointed with their overall savings, according to a new Bankrate.com survey, including 27% who...
Administration | May 28th, 2019 Generation X Has a Big Need for Retirement Readiness Improvement A study shows Americans at least 45 years old who have not yet retired are struggling financially and falling behind...
Administration | May 20th, 2019 Individuals, Employers and Government All Play a Part in Retirement Readiness A new research report and Catherine Collinson, with Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, lay out steps all three can take...
Administration | May 14th, 2019 Communicating Retirement Benefits to Five Generations of Workers The University of Pittsburgh has found stories from peers resonate well with every employee group.
Data and Research | May 9th, 2019 Fidelity Analysis Shows Advantage of Long-Term Investing for Retirement In the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, for participants who remained invested in their 401(k)s, overall, average balances...
Data and Research | May 7th, 2019 Retirement Confidence Up, But Concerns Remain While retirement confidence ticked up for workers in the 2019 Retirement Confidence Survey, many are still concerned about debt and...
Benefits | May 7th, 2019 Financial Wellness a Key to Retirement Preparedness A multi-year study found employees who regularly engaged with their employer’s financial wellness program more than doubled their feeling of...
Data and Research | May 1st, 2019 Wells Fargo Suggests Various Approaches to Retirement Saving Because people are living longer, healthier lives, the Wells Fargo Investment Institute has suggested different ways that Millennials, Generation X...
Data and Research | April 30th, 2019 Health Care Costs a Top Retirement Concern However, those who have a health savings account are more certain about how they will cover future health care costs.
Data and Research | April 26th, 2019 Uncertainty About Social Security Fuels Doubts About Retirement Outlook Only 33% of women and 49% of men said they are “extremely” or “very likely” to have enough money to...
Data and Research | April 17th, 2019 Gen X Struggling Most With Retirement Readiness and Confidence However, among all age groups, the most frequently cited retirement fear is outliving savings.
Administration | April 10th, 2019 Planning for a 40-Year Retirement Is Possible A survey from AIG Life & Retirement found many people want to live to 100, but are concerned about their...
Data and Research | April 8th, 2019 Baby Boomers, Insufficiently Prepared for Retirement, Need Access to Advisers The Insured Retirement Institute also found that financial advisers and individuals are not considering the effects of health care costs...
Data and Research | April 1st, 2019 Plan Sponsors Actively Evaluating, Changing TDFs A BlackRock survey shows four in 10 DC plan sponsors say they have changed or added TDFs in the past...
Data and Research | March 27th, 2019 Employees Want Congress and Employers to Help Them With Retirement Readiness Seventy-seven percent of Americans think Congress should do more to expand access to retirement plans, while 83% favor making it...
Data and Research | March 25th, 2019 Gig Workers Feel Just as Prepared for Retirement as Traditional Workers The majority of independent workers say they are much more or somewhat more involved in their finances as a result...
Data and Research | March 6th, 2019 Physical Workers’ Retirement Confidence Not Necessarily Realistic A report from Aegon discusses retirement planning habits of workers in physically demanding jobs and how plan sponsors can help...
Administration | March 6th, 2019 How to Mitigate Participants’ Savings Biases Experts discuss how plan sponsors can get participants out of retirement savings "ruts" and get them to engage more with...
Participants | March 5th, 2019 Participants Say They Have the Knowledge, but Do They Use It? The majority of retirement plan participants surveyed said they have knowledge about their retirement plan and fees, but while the...
Data and Research | March 4th, 2019 SOA Finds Retirement Focus Greater for Married/Partnered Versus Singles Those married or partnered are more likely to place a high priority on saving for retirement than single individuals (64%...