Tag: Participants

BrightScope said its new Personal 401k Fee Report product allows 401(k) plan participants to figure out what they pay in fees.

Participants who were inclined to rebalance their accounts in 2009 tended to follow the market, according to a new report.

Bank of America (BofA) said its latest Merrill Lynch survey of affluent Americans found that almost a third (29%) of non-retired respondents plan to retire later than originally...

Researchers studying how best to get women and low-income workers to save for retirement were able to achieve a 56% enrollment hike among their target audience at Dartmouth...

Freedom One Financial Group has added vWise SmartPlan Enterprise to its education and communication service offering to plan participants.

Despite reports that many Americans are delaying retirement, the majority of surveyed advisers said their clients’ confidence in their ability to retire remains steady.

A new survey indicates that the economic downturn hasn’t done much to shake up the retirement plans of some women.

Employers need to take steps to make defined contribution (DC) plans better primary savings vehicles, said Jamie Kalamarides, senior vice president of retirement solutions at Prudential Retirement.

Participants in GuideStone’s 403(b) plans saw an average 40%-boost in their account balances between March and November 2009, the Dallas-based financial services provider said.

A few years back—when my kids still believed in the reality of Santa Claus—we discovered an ingenious Web site that purported to offer a real-time assessment...

Could Americans have learned their lesson about saving versus spending?

New research from the Sun Life Financial Unretirement Index revealed that more working Americans seek financial advice from family members and friends than from financial advisers, the media,...

MassMutual's Retirement Services Division has announced plans to introduce its new RetireSmart participant engagement platform in the second quarter of 2010.

Most Americans don’t have money set aside for unanticipated financial emergencies and are not adequately getting ready for their children’s college expenses and their own retirement, according to...

A new survey asking respondents to choose a movie title that best describes their near-term financial future revealed more positive outlooks than negative.

Most Americans don’t check out their financial adviser’s background, according to a new study by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation.

TIAA-CREF is the latest financial firm to offer an application for the iPhone.

Savings has a new social media "friend."