Compliance | December 5th, 2025 Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill to Allow Roth IRA Rollovers Into Workplace Plans According to the bill’s authors, it would enable retirees to consolidate their assets and simplify their retirement savings.
Benefits | November 20th, 2025 Fidelity Retirement Account Balances Reach Record Highs The firm’s ‘Q3 2025 Retirement Analysis’ indicated last quarter’s results were driven by consistent savings and positive market performance.
Compliance | September 18th, 2025 What Comes Next After IRS Issues Final Rules on Roth Catch-Ups? Plan sponsors, payroll providers and plan administrators should already be ensuring they have processes in place to comply with the...
Data and Research | June 24th, 2025 Vanguard: Modern Plan Designs Strengthen Participant Saving According to Vanguard’s latest ‘How America Saves’ report, a record 45% of 401(k) plan participants increased their saving rates in...
Benefits | December 6th, 2024 Rothification, AI Advancements Among Expected Retirement Plan Trends for 2025 The head of institutional investor advice at Vanguard shares her predictions for retirement plan trends next year.
Compliance | July 30th, 2024 Congressional Budget Scoring Practices Incentivize More Rothification The way Roth-style accounts are reflected in the federal budget mean they will likely continue to drive often-complex retirement plan...
Data and Research | June 24th, 2024 Vanguard: Auto-Enrollment Continues to Boost Savings, Deferral Rates Because of the power of automatic enrollment, 401(k) plans with less than 90% participation rates are ‘now in the minority.’
Administration | February 23rd, 2024 2024 PS Webinar: SECURE 2.0 Catching Up with Catch-Ups Plan sponsors, recordkeepers and payroll providers face many challenges when it comes to implementing the SECURE 2.0 provision requiring certain...
Compliance | February 9th, 2024 What Could Taxing 401(k)s Look Like? And How Likely Is It? A few informal proposals have been made in recent years, and none got very far.
Benefits | February 5th, 2024 529, ABLE Qualified Tuition Plans Reach $470B After Big Q4 Inflows In 2023’s fourth quarter, the number of tax-preferred education savings and prepaid accounts rose to 16.4 million.
Compliance | February 1st, 2024 Federal Thrift Savings Plan Reports Record Match Qualifiers, Total Assets The plan’s matching rate is 5%, and the TSP increased the automatic enrollment contribution to 5% of income in 2020.
Benefits | December 13th, 2023 Unum Group Sees Early Success With Emergency Savings Program The insurance provider launched its emergency savings program in April, allowing participants to contribute up to $10,000 to the account...
Administration | August 30th, 2023 NAGDCA Provides Roth Catch-Up Guidance for Government Plan Sponsors Experts from Groom Law Group and NAGDCA noted in a webinar clarifying points from the IRS’s notice that may allow...
Administration | August 28th, 2023 Extension on Catch-Up Contribution Requirement Comes as Relief to Plan Sponsors The IRS announced last week that plan sponsors have an additional two years to implement the mandatory Roth catch-up provision...
Administration | June 23rd, 2023 Industry Concerns About Roth Catch-Ups Escalate SECURE 2.0 Section 603 would require catch-up contributions made by those making more than $145,000 in wages to be made...
Compliance | May 24th, 2023 Congressional Leaders Tell Treasury to Expect SECURE 2.0 Technical Corrections The letter did not outline a timeline but identified four technical errors and ambiguities to be fixed.
Compliance | May 17th, 2023 NAGDCA Asks for More Time on Roth Catch-Ups, Again Government plans will struggle to comply with SECURE 2.0 because of their administration requirements.
Benefits | April 3rd, 2023 How Plan Sponsors Can Offer Backdoor Roth Conversions Is a strategy that allows high-earners to roll over some of their retirement money into a Roth account worth the...
Compliance | March 27th, 2023 NAGDCA Says Government Plans Need More Time to Comply With SECURE 2.0 Age-60 catch-ups and Roth provisions will be especially difficult for government plans to implement.
Data and Research | September 28th, 2018 403(b)s Show Improvement in Use of Considered Best Practices More are using automatic plan features, fiduciary advisers and investment policy statements, PSCA finds.