Tag: Defined Contribution

A paper explores whether higher limits on 401(k) plan contributions encourage people to save more.

Ways to get younger employees engaged with the retirement plan—and keep them there.

Logic would dictate that retirees would shift their retirement savings to annuity products, but this has yet to happen, a...

Benefit Plans Administrative Services (BPAS) has acquired the defined contribution plan administration practice of Lifetime Benefit Solutions (LBS).

A district court in Colorado has granted in part and dismissed in part a motion from Great-West to dismiss a...

Fewer than 10,000 of Vanguard’s 3.6 million participants use the brokerage option.

Financial constraints are also causing many to delay a wide number of major life events.

Unconfirmed assumptions often appear to underlie a reluctance to retire.

Why wouldn’t investment approaches used in DB plans to enhance returns and keep costs down be appropriate for DC plans?

Michael Kreps has rejoined the Groom Law Group to help expand the premier policy practice.

More younger savers have increased their retirement contribution in the past year.

More retirement plans may be adding financial wellness programs, due to increased interest in participants' retirement readiness. 

Launches new publication for sponsors and advisers.

Paul Murray has experience working with hospital and higher education 401(k)s and 403(b)s.

Mark Schatzel joins the firm from Lincoln Financial.

Are investment menu consolidation and simplification in the best interest of plan participants?

A new service scans for unauthorized withdrawals and transfers from 401(k) accounts.

Most Americans look for a retirement plan when considering a job offer, yet only 50% of employers offer one.

More defined contribution plan participants made trades last month, according to Aon Hewitt.

PLANSPONSOR talks with U.C. Berkeley's economics department chair about the role of “decision science” in improving participant decisionmaking and closing the retirement...