Tag: Defined contribution

A new Deloitte survey underscores the extent to which sponsors are increasingly aware of their responsibilities to helping participants save for retirement.

Of the 14.8% of employers suspending their 401(k) match in recent years, 39.3% have restored them, and another 37.8% are planning to do so in the next six...

The Financial Research Corporation (FRC) projects asset growth in the DC market will achieve close to a 12% compounded annual growth rate between 2010 and 2015.

RidgeWorth Investments hired Brandon Shea to fill the newly-created role of National Sales Manager for its Defined Contribution Investment Only team.

The U.S. Department of Labor is ordering Barstow Truck Parts and Equipment Co. President, James M. Rajacich Sr., to restore $118,249 to the company’s profit-sharing plan.

Retirement benefits - especially defined benefit (DB) programs - are giving employers an added advantage when it comes to attracting and retaining new employees, according to a survey...

Plans in the Callan DC Index recovered lost ground in the third quarter, returning 8.4% on average.

Legg Mason, a global asset management firm, has created the Retirement Advisory Council, bringing together 14 industry leaders to delve into the major challenges facing the retirement industry. ...

Charles Schwab has appointed Neil T. Hickey to be Managing Director, Defined Contribution Investment Only.

Across all income groups, retirement income from employer-sponsored retirement plans is more prevalent among retirees today than in the mid-1970s, according to an Investment Company Institute (ICI) study.

A new report suggests that workplace retirement plan participation is down, but better than it has been in the past decade. 

Asset managers are adding staff and increasing budgets to capture the fast-growing defined contribution investment-only (DCIO) market, as the competition for DCIO assets is getting intense, a new...

Lincoln Financial Group announced that Sharon Scanlon has joined the company as Vice President and Business Leader for the Large-Market Defined Contribution (DC) business.

A recently commissioned survey indicates that employer-sponsored retirement plans are highly important to the workers who participate in them, but most are not maximizing their savings power.

ING added a calculator to its Web site to help demonstrate the potential long-term financial impact of retirement plan contribution rate changes.

Large-size U.S. plan sponsors recently surveyed believe participation in defined contribution plans should be mandatory, with immediate vesting of employer contributions.

The Associated Press is proposing a new contract with union employees under which its defined benefit pension plan would be frozen.

Fidelity Investments has been chosen by AT&T as its sole retirement provider, Fidelity announced.

Lincoln Financial Distributors, the wholesale distribution subsidiary of Lincoln Financial Group, announced that Greg Libby joined the firm as regional sales director with the Defined Contribution /401(k) team.

As defined contribution (DC) plans have much more inherent risk than defined benefit plans, participants, sponsors, and advisers need to take a more hands-on and active approach to...