Magazine Articles
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Women Will Heed Financial Advice
Giving them education, planning tools and similar resources helps
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Half of Retirement Savers Are ‘Chasers’
Expenses interfere with many workers' retirement savings goals
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Plan Sponsors Could Do More
Few address how to help their employees have income for life
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Increased Financial Education Demand
Employers say debt and saving for retirement are workers’ top worries
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Few Plans Embrace ESG
The DOL is asked to clarify its position on socially responsible investing
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The Most Successful Advisers Are Tech Innovators
AI is just one strategy they use to drive profitability
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Most Millennials Have Appropriate Allocations
This is despite having lived through two bear markets
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Fiduciary Insurance Is Critical
Insurers scrutinize potential customers more carefully
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Investment Focus
Active Management Still Key
The strategy accounts for $1.47 trillion of DC plan investments
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Practice Development
Cash Balance Plans on the Rise
As participants approach retirement, the plans let them “turbo-charge their saving.”
Data Points
Ups, Downs of Balanced Funds
Just 8.9% of plans employ these funds as their default investment
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Editor’s Letter
Burying the Lead?
Investing is about how you behave more than it is about what you know
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Research
Keeping Up with the Intermediaries
Recordkeepers stay in step with demands of advisers and other plan distribution channels
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