Threats of financial penalties and legal liabilities heighten the need for proper compliance with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Let’s go over the basics of what it means to be a fiduciary in an organization’s retirement plan. What is a...
Target-date funds have long played a vital role in giving American workers access to professional help when establishing and maintaining a diversified investment portfolio. However, the glide paths — the balance of stocks, bonds, and cash — that serve as the...
Despite the importance of retirement planning, a staggering 67% of investors admit to spending no time at all working on it in a typical month, according to a recent survey conducted by the Nationwide Retirement Institute. That’s a vast majority of investors failing...
As a plan sponsor, you probably spend a fair amount of time dealing with it one way or another — whether you’re gathering, analyzing, or reporting it. And for good reason, given the intrinsic value of data-driven decision making. Much of this data exists on a macro...
Generation X — comprising those born between 1965 and 1980 — faces unique financial and social pressures that have left almost half of them with no retirement savings. Compounding these challenges, only 1 in 10 Gen Xers plans to delay filing for Social Security until...
The SECURE Act and SECURE 2.0 have increased many part-time employees’ access to employer-sponsored retirement plans. As such, understanding the unique challenges of improving part-time participants’ retirement readiness, and how their needs may differ from those of...
