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Two new solutions aim to help employees pay off their college debt and plan for health care expenses in retirement.

Advisers can help plan participants understand their hierarchy of needs, framing guidance to fit the context of whatever additional relief Congress may provide.

Certain policy changes and the right support for plan sponsors could make it easier for plans and participants to embrace lifetime income solutions.

The two firms hope to allow advisers to access a new version of Vestwell’s retirement planning portal on the Riskalyze platform.

Lazard Launches Equity Portfolio; American Century Reorganizes Income Fund; Nuveen Releases ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF; and more.

The firm says this “first of its kind compliance-approved text messaging solution for financial advisers” helps maximize convenient client communication. 

A research paper examines three levers that DB plan sponsors can use to enhance portfolio outcomes in a low-interest-rate environment.

Through a single partner, employers will be able to manage health care benefits, promote enrollment and satisfy compliance requirements.

A new platform identifies a client’s financial decisionmaking process to help advisers make better recommendations.

The checklist covers various fiduciary responsibilities including those not associated with supposed delays or changes to the fiduciary rule, RiXtrema says.

Savers can now invest intelligently and reduce costs with a single view of their retirement and health funds, the firms suggest. 

More investment providers are now using ETFs within glide-path-based portfolios, but the business development leader at Stadion says his firm has long embraced the approach, as exemplified by...

Fifty-nine percent are unsure about who to go to for financial advice and guidance, a survey finds.

The new website offers various tools and resources, as well as a Q&A section.

Hartford Funds Expands Fixed Income ETF Suite; Sage Releases ESG Intermediate Credit Index; ICMA-RC Opening Investments to Private Sector.

However, Rick Jones, with Aon, says, “Pension risk transfer is a trillion dollar market, and much more will be settled in coming year."

Through a series of newly released resources, SEI aims to help advisers enhance their referral generating initiatives.

The provider is enhancing its participant-facing digital offerings to drive participant behavior.

 

Last year, The SPARK Institute formed a Data Security Oversight Board (DSOB), comprised of both recordkeepers and members of the plan adviser community.

Lively, Inc. introduced investment capabilities through an integration with TD Ameritrade Institutional’s Self-Directed Plan Services platform.