Tag: Defined contribution

ASPire Financial Services has hired Eddie Griffin as Regional Director of Sales in the Northeast Region.

The institutional defined contribution (DC) market is out of reach for most mutual fund managers; therefore, the focus of many DCIO sales efforts is the retail market, concludes...

Putnam Investments hired Stephen Jenks as Head of Product and Marketing for its Defined Contribution business. 

Prudential Retirement has reorganized its business to integrate its product, service and operations teams into three business lines.

According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), participation of workers in individual-account 401(k)-type plans, which had grown sharply through the 1990s, leveled off from 2005-2009. 

The Profit Sharing/401k Council of America is expanding the organization's reach by changing its name to the Plan Sponsor Council of America – the acronym remains the same.

Who says defined benefit plans are dead? Panelists at the PLANADVISER National Conference in Orlando last week discussed the potential future of plan types other than defined...

Hank Kim, Esq., Executive Director and Counsel for the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS), has unveiled a proposal for a new type of retirement plan.

The Callan DC Index eked out a negligible 0.23% return in the second quarter of the year.

A nationwide survey of nearly 200 health care plan sponsors found that two-thirds of their employees participate in retirement plans, with participation in 401(k) plans slightly higher than...

When The Hartford asked Americans age 45 and older about their retirement plans, two in five said they intended to work longer and delay retirement, or work part...

The Investment Company Institute (ICI) said plaintiffs’ contentions in Tibble v. Edison International that so-called “retail” mutual funds offered by the plan would not have been offered by...

The U.S. real estate business of UBS Global Asset Management appointed Laurie Tillinghast as Executive Director, Defined Contribution Product and Strategy.

Participant withdrawal and contribution data indicate that essentially all defined contribution plan participants continued to save in their retirement plans at work in the first quarter of the...

Mega defined contribution plan sponsors, whose plans have $500 million or more in assets, are focused on a unique set of factors when selecting a new asset manager...

While DCIO (Defined Contribution Investment-Only) assets continue to grow at a healthy pace, the industry is entering the early stages of maturity, according to a recently released study...

Automation has become standard in many defined contribution (DC) plans, according to a recent report from Aon Hewitt.

A survey from Aon Hewitt finds that defined contribution (DC) plans are now the primary retirement savings vehicle for the majority of workers, up substantially from 2009.

Russell Investments has expanded its institutional defined contribution team with the appointments of Keith Lennon and Michelle Rappa.

There were three big disclosure announcements last week.