Tag: 401(k)

The strategic partnership with Spectra Benefits and Miller & Wade Group aims to helping employees view the HSA more like a retirement account for their health. 

The IRS document can be used by advisers in helping them educate plan sponsors about automatic enrollment 401(k) plans as well as to help plan sponsors set up...

In addition to imposing penalties for failure to provide requested plan documents to a 401(k) participant, a federal district court found the plan filed a simplified Form 5500...

The latest ERISA lawsuit to be filed targets Xerox and Financial Engines for advice arrangements negotiated between the firms and several Ford Motor Company retirement plans. 

ForUsAll's Safe Harbor 401(k) Resource Center includes a “Safe Harbor 101” handbook and a Safe Harbor Cost Calculator, among other things.

The agency announced the availability of “Issue Snapshots” about tax-related issues for retirement plan practitioners.

More participants are putting all their assets in a single target-date fund—using TDFs as their designers generally intend.

While usage of automatic plan features is falling, there is more interest in offering managed accounts and investment advice, research finds.

This is a friendly reminder that 2017 PLANSPONSOR Retirement Plan Sponsor of the Year nomination forms are still available. Don't wait to nominate—time is running out! 

The bank’s recent troubles over illegal sales practices have led retirement plan participants to file an ERISA stock drop suit, claiming plan fiduciaries continued to offer Wells stock...

You can’t really call it a “safe” investment portfolio if it fails to generate enough return to reach an adequate savings level prior to retirement. 

However, Aon Hewitt data shows new contributions continue to favor stocks, with 65.7% of employee contributions investing in equities—a slight increase from 65.6% in August.

The lawsuit notes that the plan's fiduciary ignored multiple suggestions to hire a professional to manage the plan's investments.

A concise example of summary judgement published by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court underscores retirement plan fiduciaries’ absolute duty to diversify and carefully administer participant assets. 

The SEC recently weighed in on whether offering a brokerage window in a 401(k) through which investments in employer securities can be made involves an offer of employer...

The newly announced partnership between Alpine and PCS is an example of how recordkeeping providers are offering white-labeled platform options to support brand-conscious advisers. 

Two leading executives discussed the new fiduciary rule, retirement readiness, income and more.

"By studying the experience of workers who participate consistently across several years, this study shows more accurately the extent to which steady, paycheck-by-paycheck saving and compounding investment returns...

A study found general education sessions are ineffective, and employees said digital tools would get them more engaged in their retirement planning.