Tag: Retirement Income

What can retirement planners in the U.S. learn from other countries’ steps to support populations quickly skewing older?

Few understand their eligibility, a MassMutual survey finds.

These separately managed investment accounts are built around each participant’s asset profile and individual circumstances.

In the second half of a conversation with PLANADVISER, U.C. Berkeley Economics Department Chair Shachar Kariv discusses the importance of defining and driving “financial rationality” among workplace savers.

Forty-five percent of “younger” respondents to a recent survey said they have student loan debt.

TIAA-CREF’s president and CEO on how to stop the retirement crisis before it starts.

A rigorous new study out of George Mason University takes a strong positive stance on using lifetime annuities over structured withdrawals.

How willing are plan sponsors to embrace change and innovation to fend off the retirement savings crisis?

Helping plan participants choose the right Social Security strategy can be a much-needed boon to retirement readiness.

What’s your definition of an optimal plan outcome?

The GAO reports that maybe half of near-retirees have no money put aside.

More than half (56%) of retirement plan participants have no strategy for making their money last throughout retirement.

Income from individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and 401(k)-type plans was being missed in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS), EBRI says.

Even among those saving for retirement, most have no or limited confidence in their ability to manage their retirement investments.

While market returns and auto-features are expected to tamper the impact of Boomer-driven outflows, advisers see the need to prompt additional savings to keep plans healthy.