Tag: Participants

Half of retirement plan participants younger than 34 reported they have left a job in the past five years, leaving the door open for plan leakage.

Using online calculators and retirement advisers has been linked to higher levels of retirement confidence.

As the industry talks about moving away from traditional benchmarks; how plan sponsors benchmark their plans was the subject of a panel discussion for advisers.

Older employees are delaying their retirement, says a survey from human resources and financial services firm Mercer.

The Principal Financial Group finds retirement plan participants using mobile technology have better savings behaviors.

Corporate Insight spends much of its time analyzing the retirement plan participant experience with plan providers.

The majority of workers polled for the 2013 Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS) indicated support for guaranteed income options in their retirement plans.

Two senators introduced legislation that would give individuals who take a loan from their retirement accounts more time to repay after leaving a job.

The Income Simulator from Fidelity Investments is an online guidance tool that shows retirement plan participants how savings translates into actual retirement income.

Despite belief they will need to set aside a large portion of income to have a secure retirement, Americans seem unable to do so.

Twenty-two percent of workers in the 2013 Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS) say the age at which they expect to retire has increased in the past year.

The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has resources for participants to learn about plan fees.

Traditionally, each generation is typically wealthier than the previous one at any given age.

Address market challenges, embrace innovation and take the lead in improving retirement policy, said Robert L. Reynolds, president and chief executive of Putnam Investments.

Beyond the general education about how to much to save and how to invest, retirement plan participants have issues at different life stages that need to be addressed.

When it comes to retirement planning communication, plan sponsors must remember to lend a helping hand to disengaged and engaged employees alike.

Two-thirds of defined contribution (DC) plan providers have launched mobile initiatives focused on plan participants, with more companies planning them, LIMRA found.

There was no decline in retirement preparedness among employees in 2012 despite a decline in overall financial wellness, according to data from Financial Finesse.

Nearly half of women (48%) do not have any retirement strategy at all, according to a study from the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies.