Tag: Participants

Under new Department of Labor rules, retirement plan sponsors must provide fee disclosures to participants by May 31, 2012.

MassMutual's Retirement Services Division announced a topic lineup for its RetireSmart interactive participant education series for 2012.

U.S. workers’ financial worries are impacting their work performance and retirement savings plans. 

 ING’s U.S. Retirement division launched the ING Lifetime Income Protection Program.    

Great-West Retirement Services enhanced its websites for plan sponsor clients, advisers and third-party administrator (TPA) partners.   

Americans could retire up to 10 years earlier and with a higher standard of living if they did so outside of the U.S.

Sentinel Benefits & Financial Group (SBFG) released a tool for participants to use on personal mobile devices.

Forty-eight percent of Americans do not feel prepared for retirement.   

Despite widespread economic volatility in 2011, 80% of Americans in an Allianz Life survey said they will not focus on financial planning in their resolutions for 2012.

Most U.S. adults have at least one financial New Year's resolution. 

Generations X and Y have embraced the concept of self-directed retirement savings more so than their parents and grandparents.  

Eighteen percent of Americans say planning for retirement is an area they want to work on in 2012.

A “Sample Glossary of Investment-Related Terms for Disclosures to Retirement Plan Participants” is available to help plan sponsors comply with new Department of Labor fee-disclosure regulations.  

Diversified has introduced the next generation of its personalized retirement planning tool for participants.  

“Comprehensive” is a key word, according to a new Wells Fargo poll of affluent Americans regarding retirement; they might say they have a plan, but what does that...

Low-income workers receive more benefits when participating in a 401(k) plan, according to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

Thirty-nine percent of Americans say the Social Security retirement age will jump to 80 by 2036.   

A report says companies will need to manage the effects global aging patterns will have on their workforce and customers.  

From 2006 to 2010, the percentage of Americans planning to retire at age 80 more than tripled.

A Fidelity Investments study found 46% of Americans are considering a financial resolution in 2012.