Voices

Toni Brown, senior vice president, Retirement Strategy, Capital Group, says a plan sponsor with a clearly defined objective for its defined contribution (DC) plan will be better positioned...

We covered a survey which found if an emergency pet expense were to present itself, more than one-third (37%) of respondents said they would sacrifice contributions to their...

“I work for a third-party administrator (TPA) firm that has a new private tax-exempt client which started a 403(b) plan last year intending it to be not governed...

Some folks are just not morning people, and it takes them a while to get going at work, while others may start the work day off with a...

Marcia Wagner, founder of The Wagner Law Group, answers questions about the PBGC’s Plan Sponsor Pilot Mediation Project.

Michael Barry, president of the Plan Advisory Services Group, discusses how what was not included in the tax reform bill signals optimism for the U.S. retirement plan system.

Michael Schultz, RFC, CFS, president, Venn Wealth & Benefit Services discusses variables that should be considered when doing due diligence on TDFs.

“I have received so many emails etc. on tax reform, including articles that conflict with each other, that I am on information overload! Should I be worried?”

We recently covered a survey in which senior managers shared their most embarrassing moments at work.

Participants’ desire to invest according to faith-based principles can be a tricky proposition for employers that manage a retirement plan.

“I work for a denominational church entity where ministers can exclude a portion of their compensation from taxable income as parsonage (housing) allowance.

Many current 401(k) engagement strategies ignore those employees who would like to save in a 401(k) but feel as though they can’t.

“We are a 501(c)(3) private tax-exempt hospital that  sponsors a 403(b) plan. We have an employee who has been here for many years whom we are forced to...

Michael Barry, president of the Plan Advisory Services Group, discusses how the accounting measures for multiemployer plans contributed to their current crisis.

Targeted, or personalized, messaging to employees—encouraging employees to save for retirement, to save more or addressing other financial issues they may be facing—has been touted as a way...

“We are a private tax-exempt organization that currently uses a recordkeeper-provided document for its 403(b) plan. The document consists of a generic base plan document, along with an...

“I work for a denominational church plan sponsor. Our plan permits contract exchanges (we have some inactive vendors in the plan to which we permit transfers to the...

Robert C. Merton, Ph.D., and Arun S. Muralidhar, Ph.D., discuss how Standard of Living indexed, Forward-starting, Income-only Securities can address the call for in-plan retirement income solutions.

For the first time in my career, I work for a company that provides both Thanksgiving Day and the day after as paid holidays.

During open enrollment and beyond, employers’ and their advisers’ conversations about engagement in consumer-driven health care needs to change significantly.