Tag: Defined contribution

The Department of Labor (DOL) won judgment from a federal district court to have funds restored to a retirement plan based in Ayer, Massachusetts.

Fidelity Investments says the average balance of its 401(k) plan accounts rose to a record high of $84,300 at the end of the third quarter.

The 401(k) market’s annual growth rate is holding at 9% and could push total assets beyond $4.2 trillion next year, a report from Ignites Retirement Research shows.

Participation in employer-sponsored retirement plans has been generally stable since 2011.

The key to satisfaction with a formalized financial plan may simply be to write one, a new Spectrem Group research report shows.

Bank of America is moving its $19 billion defined contribution (DC) plan, currently with Fidelity, to the Merrill Lynch platform.

A strategy that is more than 50 years old, smart beta is receiving new attention as investors seek alternatives to passive, index-based asset management.

Returns for target-date and target-risk funds were around 5% for the third quarter, according to Morningstar, Inc.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) asked the U.S. Treasury and Department of Labor (DOL) to revise electronic disclosure rules governing employee-sponsored retirement plans to improve clarity and protect...

The first half of 2013 saw little change in saving and withdrawal activity among employer-sponsored defined contribution (DC) plan participants, an Investment Company Institute (ICI) study found.

It can improve participants’ portfolio construction, asset allocation and also participant outcomes. So what should advisers tell reluctant plan sponsors about auto re-enrollment?

Customers of the Mutual of America Life Insurance Company can now make account-related changes and execute transactions through a mobile website.

Sapiens International Corporation announced the upcoming release of its Retirement Services Recordkeeping Platform.

Andrew Gracan joined Great-West Financial as regional sales director of national accounts in the Northeast.

The right metrics and valuation strategy can help defined contribution (DC) plan investment committees cut through the complexity of evaluating target-date fund (TDF) performance.

A new survey by Aon Hewitt revealed that employers are boosting efforts to help their employees save for retirement.

A series of animated “whiteboards,” released by New York Life Retirement Plan Services, aims to illustrate prominent 401(k) planning concepts for employer-sponsored retirement plan participants.

BNP Paribas Investment Partners Trust Company added a share class to offer employer-sponsored retirement plans access to its U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) comingled investment fund.

Growing levels of student loan debt could force today’s college graduates to retire more than a decade beyond the current average retirement age.

Lingering financial strains exacerbated by slow economic growth continue to push middle class workers’ priorities away from retirement savings and towards monthly expenses, according to the 2013 Wells...