Tag: Defined contribution

The paper provides insights to help multi-national companies with defined contribution plans (DC) in different countries.

The proposals include universal retirement accounts and a change to the treatment of tax incentives.

Collective bargaining agreements can make retirement plan administration more challenging.

What can retirement planners in the U.S. learn from other countries’ steps to support populations quickly skewing older?

More defined contribution plan participants made trades last month, according to Aon Hewitt.

Plan participants who regularly work with a financial adviser are likelier to have discussed the pros and cons of a rollover.

Vanguard's annual study examines the rise of automatic plan features and sponsors' growing sense of responsibility for participant outcomes.

Cash balance plans and ESOPs can now be submitted for an approval letter from the IRS.

The University of California, Berkeley economics department chair discusses the role of “decision science” in improving participant decisionmaking and closing the retirement income gap.

What’s your definition of an optimal plan outcome?

Income products are a hot topic for the retirement plan industry.

The CPA firm JMM & Associates has launched a benefit plan audits firm.

Anyone who has cut their teeth in the retirement benefits space knows perennial change simply comes with the territory.

“The main impact of Tibble vs. Edison in my view is that it’s a good reminder that plan sponsors need to sharpen their pencils and look once again at...

An analysis from Aon Hewitt suggests there’s an opportunity for retirement plan participants to be more proactively involved with their accounts and improve long-term savings.

Lincoln Financial Group’s retirement plan services business made two additions to its institutional retirement distribution team focused on the government plans market.

Jesse Gelsomini, a partner in Haynes and Boone LLP specializing in employee benefits, feels the Supreme Court decision in Tibble v. Edison has strengthened the ongoing duty to monitor...

A new savings plan option for employees of small businesses will be available in 2017 through a retirement marketplace being set up in the state of Washington.

An annual study from Judy Diamond Associates, ALM’s retirement plan intelligence provider, shows 54,493 401(k) plans failed their 2013 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) nondiscrimination tests.

A decision from the Supreme Court of the United States seems to solidify the “ongoing duty to monitor” investments as a fiduciary duty that is separate and distinct...