Benefits

September 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Employer-sponsored health benefits are very similar in 2014 to what they were in 2013, according to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

September 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Early responses from a Mercer survey still in the field show employers are predicting that health benefit costs per employee will rise by...

September 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retail health insurance marketplaces, known as exchanges, are dramatically changing the employer benefits environment, according to a report from PwC’s Health Research Institute...

September 9, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Ever heard of a QDRIA? You might, if income solutions become an integral part of defined contribution (DC) plans.

September 9, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Current workers should factor uncertainty about labor market outcomes into their retirement planning, a research paper concludes.

September 9, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new survey tries to gauge how a high school senior’s career aspirations may fill the skills gap that stem from large numbers...

September 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An optimistic view of U.S. retirement preparedness depends crucially on assumptions about behavior that may not reflect real world activity, researchers suggest.

September 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two-thirds (66%) of Generations X and Y have not calculated how much they need to save for retirement—and only 19% work with a...

September 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ownership of retirement accounts fell in 2013, but median and mean values of retirement accounts rose substantially, according to a Federal Reserve Bulletin.

September 5, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An individual departing the workforce today will see out-of-pocket health care costs grow 7% annually throughout retirement, an analysis from J.P. Morgan suggests.

September 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Law firms say they are seeing a growing number of claims for pension benefits that were paid or rolled over decades ago by...

September 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new analysis of retirement plan offerings at Fortune 500 companies suggests the shift from defined benefit (DB) plans to defined contribution (DC)...

September 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Among approximately 75 large employers, nearly one-quarter (24%) are currently using a white label approach to naming defined contribution (DC) plan investment options,...

September 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – As companies froze or closed their qualified defined benefit (DB) plans, they often did the same with their DB plans for executives.

August 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The retirement plan industry today is vastly different from that of 1974, when the Employee Retirement Income Security Act was passed.

August 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Defined contribution plan sponsors may find it challenging to get employees to engage in retirement saving and planning, but there are ways to...

August 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Generation X workers face some formidable obstacles to achieving retirement readiness, according to Transamerica, but there is hope for the generation if aggressive...

August 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Implementing an automatic rollover program can help retirement plan sponsors establish safe harbor individual retirement accounts (IRAs) for missing or non-responsive participants.

August 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Women are showing more engagement in retirement savings plans than men, according to an analysis by MassMutual Retirement Services.

August 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A significant number of Americans find conversations about financial issues difficult, a survey finds.