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Too Many Choices: How Many Investment Options Should You Offer?

Many plan providers struggle with deciding how many investment options to offer in their retirement plans. While people generally like to have lots of options when making other decisions, having too many plan options can potentially lead to poor investment decisions by plan participants. In addition, increasing plan options can also increase plan costs, as well as the administration associated with the plan. Choice Overload … Continue reading Too Many Choices: How Many Investment Options Should You Offer?

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Use Plan Analytics to Evaluate Your Retirement Plan

Your retirement plan is a valuable resource for your employees and serves as a vehicle to attract and retain top talent. Ensuring plan success is crucial. Examining plan analytics can help evaluate its success. Plan analytics you should explore: Median age, tenure and savings rates of plan participants These analytics can be helpful to determine which age groups are not strongly participating and may be … Continue reading Use Plan Analytics to Evaluate Your Retirement Plan

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Target Date Funds and Fiduciary Obligations

Target date funds (TDFs) — which rebalance investments to become more conservative as a fixed date approaches — are a convenient way for plan participants to diversify their portfolios and reduce volatility and risk as they approach retirement, making them an increasingly popular choice. However not all TDFs are created equal, and selecting and monitoring them can pose unique challenges for plan sponsors and fiduciary … Continue reading Target Date Funds and Fiduciary Obligations

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Participant Memo: Take Advantage of Your Company’s Retirement Plan Matching Program

Over 40 percent of employers now offer at least a small retirement plan match to employees, who can help manage their financial wellness by taking advantage of this offer. Even if your employer only matches a small percentage, you’re losing money by not participating. But before you sign up for your company’s retirement plan, it’s important to know how to make the most of it. … Continue reading Participant Memo: Take Advantage of Your Company’s Retirement Plan Matching Program

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Financial Wellness

Financial Wellness and Productivity: How are your Employees Affected?

Employees worried about their personal finances are less productive, more distracted and are easier targets for poachers. While none of that is a revelation, a recent nationwide survey showed just how pervasive financial insecurity is in the workforce and how large the losses and potential risks are for employers at every level. When asked what they feel stress about, 59% of respondents said personal finances … Continue reading Financial Wellness and Productivity: How are your Employees Affected?

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Plan Design

Why CFOs Should Consider Partnering with a Retirement Plan Advisor

Many companies are outsourcing more and more activities, mainly because outsourcing can provide cost savings and increase productivity. Outsourcing allows companies to focus more on their core businesses, rather than spending time on areas outside their expertise. For retirement plan sponsors, outsourcing services makes sense for these reasons as well as others. Reduced Risks As a plan sponsor, you and your company are plan fiduciaries, … Continue reading Why CFOs Should Consider Partnering with a Retirement Plan Advisor

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Improve your Retirement Plan by Encouraging Employees to Join

Many organizations face the problem of increasing employee participation in their retirement plans. Participation is crucial to the success of the plan, and it improves employee retention and overall job satisfaction – but how can plan sponsors improve participation rates? Design: Your plan needs to meet the needs of your employees and your company. Employee matching contributions, waiting periods for new employees, loan or hardship … Continue reading Improve your Retirement Plan by Encouraging Employees to Join

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Participant Corner

Participant Corner: The Importance of Keeping Beneficiary Information Updated

Planning for the departure of a loved one is a difficult thing to think about, but no matter how delicate, it is something any pragmatic planner must consider. What happens to your retirement account when you, your spouse or partner pass? When choosing your retirement plan it’s likely that you were asked to designate a beneficiary – the individual who would receive the money accrued … Continue reading Participant Corner: The Importance of Keeping Beneficiary Information Updated

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Plan Design

The Benefits of Matching Retirement Contributions

As the unemployment rate has dropped, hiring has grown increasingly competitive – especially for businesses with highly-specialized positions. It’s important to understand how retirement matches factor into the hiring process and how they can financially benefit your company. Here are a few reasons why offering a retirement match helps your business. Competitive Hiring If you don’t offer a retirement match, chances are your competitors do, … Continue reading The Benefits of Matching Retirement Contributions

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Plan Design

The More You Know: Automatic Enrollment Notices

Many retirement plans today provide automatic enrollment for employees, meaning the plan sponsor initiates enrollment into the retirement plan on behalf of the employee. One common question plan sponsors come across is whether their enrollment kit satisfies the annual automatic enrollment notice requirement. At first glance, it may seem that enrollment kits contain all the necessary information to satisfy your obligation to provide an annual … Continue reading The More You Know: Automatic Enrollment Notices

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