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What strategies should plan sponsors consider for reaching their goals in the new market environment?

Even in very mission-driven organizations, there is enough diversity of opinion to make consensus on how to define environmental and social responsibility quite difficult.

However, serious downturns can reveal risks plan sponsors didn’t know they had.

Long a challenge associated with pensions, defined contribution plan investors find themselves grappling with the challenges of interest rate risk amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Of the three institutional segments tracked by Northern Trust, corporate ERISA pension plans performed the best during 1Q 2020.

First quarter performance data shows well designed defined contribution retirement plans are doing a decent job at protecting the savings of working Americans relative to retail brokerage accounts.

“Rather than panic and act on their emotions, the vast majority of participants allowed their DC plans to do the job they were meant to do,” says Katherine...

Vanguard found its clients with only a defined contribution (DC) retirement plan relationship exhibited the lowest levels of trading.

‘To ensure access to invested monies for shareholders across the country,’ ICI’s president asks the Board of Governors to consider mutual funds and their providers for exemptions to...

Hopefully participants closest to retirement are conservatively invested, but either way, the message from retirement plan sponsors should be the same—stay the course with investments.

Confidence exists that insurers will come up with solutions to address the possibility that plan sponsors may at some point make provider changes.

Echoing a move last enacted during the Great Recession, the federal government is reportedly seeking to temporarily guarantee money market funds.

DC plan sponsors have several items in their toolbox to help participants create a diversified portfolio that includes exposure to equities in line with their risk tolerance.

This significant bout of negative market volatility, coming as it does on the heels of the passage of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act,...