Looking to reduce your fiduciary risk as a plan sponsor? A little outside help can yield big reductions in risk, provide the best for the people on your company’s payroll, and help you feel good about your qualified retirement plan. Remember though, what’s good for the plan participants isn’t always best for the company – and as the plan sponsor, the company takes on substantial … Continue reading 3(38) or 3(21): Which Fiduciary Service is Right for You?

Americans are saving more for retirement, according to a survey released by the Plan Sponsor Council of America.1 In fact, employees put 6.8 percent of their paychecks into 401(k) and profit-sharing plans in 2018 compared to 6.2 percent of their salaries in 2010. Why the increase? One reason may be that 57.5 percent of retirement plan sponsors have included an automatic enrollment feature in their … Continue reading The Impact of Auto-Enrollment into Retirement Plans

As a retirement plan sponsor how can you encourage your employees to save and save more? Improving both employee participation and their saving rates is easy when you’re prepared. Here are four simple ways you can help your employees start building a confident retirement. Boost employee participation with automatic enrollment. Choosing to automatically enroll all new employees in your retirement plan can dramatically improve your … Continue reading Four Ways to Increase Employee Retirement Contribution Participation

The flow to passive management is one of the biggest talking points of the decade. With this shift came the daunting task, and responsibility, to better evaluate the abundance of index funds offered by the marketplace. Index funds seek to replicate the performance of a benchmark, making the idea of comparing returns appear counter-intuitive. This notion has led many to focus almost entirely on fees. … Continue reading Index Funds – Looking Beyond Fees

As human resource managers begin working on updating their benefits package, it’s important to remember that millennials are quitting their jobs faster than employers can hire them1 – which is especially problematic considering millennials now make up 50 percent of the workforce 2. The reasons for resignations vary widely, but one retention solution may be to consider offering a student loan contribution program. In 1999, … Continue reading Student Loan Contribution Programs: The New Way to Recruit and Retain Millennials in Today’s Workplace

Ever wondered why we use Russell instead of S&P for benchmarks in the RPAG system? Here are four important reasons: Russell ranks each company in the investable universe according to its total market capitalization while S&P uses a committee to make these decisions. Market cap is the primary indicator to determine where a company belongs in the Russell Index. Using a float adjustment methodology, Russell … Continue reading Why We Use Russell Instead of S&P