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

As Americans look into the future and towards retirement, many understand that maintaining their health will be an important part of their overall quality of life after they stop working. However, uncertainty around healthcare costs – both now and in retirement – is a major financial worry among Americans preparing for retirement. So how can you help your workers reduce financial anxiety about retirement preparedness … Continue reading Four Reasons to Integrate Health Savings into your Retirement Plan