Tag: Plan design

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Retirement & Benefit Plan Services' quarterly report on plan and participant activities within its proprietary 401(k) business found 60% of participants started or...

Nearly half (49%) of 63 surveyed CFOs at financial services firms said their companies are reducing employee bonuses in the next six months, according to Grant Thornton LLP.

A recent Watson Wyatt survey of large employers found that 35% of those that reduced their 401(k) match anticipate reversing that decision in the next six months—up from...

Prudential Financial has been talking about a new kind of retirement – now the firm has rolled out those ideas as a product design.

Despite the Wall Street turmoil and the economic downturn, the number of employees joining 401(k) plans serviced by Charles Schwab actually increased.

A new survey finds small business owners are ready to pick up hiring, but feel the inability to afford benefits may hinder them from attracting new employees.

MassMutual Retirement Services' quarterly analysis of plans it administers indicates plan participants are more engaged in their retirement planning and saving, and are also more confident in the...

As I was listening to, and participating in, panels at our Future of Asset Allocated Funds conference in California this past week, I was struck again...

A new report says that although the trend toward greater individual responsibility for retirement security will undoubtedly continue, there is much that employers, financial institutions, and the government...

Forty percent of respondents to a new plan sponsor survey believe the worst of the current economic turmoil has come to an end.

Asset-allocation fund solutions have, to put it mildly, exploded on the retirement plan scene—aided in no small measure by the sanction of the Department of Labor’s final regulations...

The Profit Sharing/401k Council of America (PSCA) found the number of sponsors offering investment advice is on the rise.

Small-business owners now have a new place to go for information about retirement planning.

The asset allocation of target-date funds has been a hotly debated topic, especially as the financial crisis has put them under the microscope.

Four-in-10 surveyed New Jersey plan sponsors use a financial adviser to help educate employees, while 33% do not provide any help in educating employees regarding their 401(k) plans....

An Aon Consulting survey indicates employers are taking a wait-and-see approach before changing their retirement programs.

Somewhere in the course of your professional life, you have no doubt heard (or used) the expression about what happens when you assume1.

Fewer than half of plan sponsors said their benefits budgets increased over 2008, down from the two-thirds of those polled about their 2007 and 2006 spending, a Prudential...

A South Carolina hospital is restructuring its retirement savings program, including a freeze on its current defined benefit plan.  

Nearly half (47%) of employers are now automatically enrolling participants into a retirement plan and another third are seriously considering it, a new survey found.