Tag: Plan Design

Microsoft had a desire to help participants optimize benefits usage and their retirement readiness.

Average health care costs are expected to increase by 5.5% to $11,304 per employee in 2015, according to Aon Hewitt.

 

The rise of defined contribution (DC) plans as the primary retirement vehicle for U.S. workers over the past few decades...

Augmented reality technology via a mobile application (app) from Transamerica Retirement Solutions can help drive up retirement savings. 

In an effort to diversify their portfolios, institutions are making sizable investments in real assets and are planning to increase...

Some retirement plan provisions can create headaches for plan sponsors.

October 31, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" -...

October 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Automatic enrollment has been shown to increase the number of employees who save in their...

October 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If one of your retirement plan participants wanted to establish a drawdown strategy for retirement...

October 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Higher education institutions that offer a 403(b) or Roth 403(b) plan are adopting practices that...

October 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - America’s pension system slipped two places and has fallen to 13th in the world in...

October 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Higher education institutions are continuing to improve their retirement programs, a survey finds.

October 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Objectively, how good is your retirement plan? Without some comparative analysis, how would you know?

October 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With all of the talk of a looming retirement crisis, it’s easy to forget that...

October 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Employers are looking at several strategies to reduce health care benefit costs, but many are...

September 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Objectively, how good is your retirement plan? Without some comparative analysis, how would you know?

September 19, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Plan sponsors can only do so much with plan design to maximize the value of...

September 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors can use data about industry trends to make improvements to their retirement plans.

September 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. retirement plan landscape has moved from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC),...

September 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pentegra Retirement Services introduced the “Pentegra SmartPath,” a new brochure which details recommended progressive 401(k)...