Tag: Defined contribution

When selecting a TDF, many retirement plan sponsors fail to look holistically at allocation and risk.

However, levels of reallocation activity were slightly higher than the reallocation activity observed in the first three quarters of...

The Fortune 500 listing is often thought of as a pillar of stability, but that description hardly fits the way the world's biggest companies have handled retirement benefits...

Officers of Alliance Home Healthcare illegally distributed assets of the company’s profit sharing plan, a DOL lawsuit claims.

The newly emerged text of President Obama’s 2017 budget proposal includes hundreds of millions of dollars in proposed funding over the next decade to encourage wider use of...

The firm says multiemployer DC plan trustees can benchmark their plans against Segal’s client database.

Households oppose changing tax incentives for retirement saving, says an ICI survey.

2015 was the first calendar year since 2008 that institutional investors overall had a negative return.

The guidance includes prohibited changes to a safe harbor retirement plan.

ERISA expert discusses the significant implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Montanile v. Board of Trustees, especially as it pertains to enforcing liens on retirement or health...

The proposed rule will help closed DB plans continue to satisfy minimum coverage and other testing requirements.

A national, auto-enrolled retirement savings plan proposal is modeled on the government Thrift Savings Plan.

“We recommend that plan sponsors consider these investment ‘ideas’ in the context of their overall plan objectives and constrains and under the advice of their investment consultant or...

It may be time to revisit standard income replacement rates, says a research paper.

More affluent Baby Boomers and current retirees say they have less trouble sticking to a long-term investment strategy to fund their golden years.

The Pension Protection Act ranked as a top influence on defined contribution plan management in a recent survey.

DOL proposal on state-run retirement programs promotes confusing patchwork of laws and a few unintended consequences, say industry groups ICI and SIFMA.

Mercer outlines the top investment considerations to discuss with not-for-profit healthcare organizations in 2016.