Trends and Insights

Data shows that automated features such as automatic (auto) enrollment, auto-increase, and re-enrollment can significantly improve participation rates and help employees save for retirement. Explore cost-neutral ways of adding such automated features to your plan design.

Retirement plans today tend to be designed with features so the average person can begin saving with little effort. Yet, it’s seemingly not working for many employees. Instead of easier, do we need to make it harder to avoid?

A comparison of the risk management options for defined benefit plans: Liability-driven investing, annuity buy-outs, and annuity buy-ins.

Stay in-the-know of how looming tax battles, regulatory shakeups, and legal risks are converging to potentially reshape the retirement landscape.

The recent market downturn is a stark reminder of the importance of using a strategy that seeks to lock in gains and reduces investment risk when the timing is right.

Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and employees agree on the most desired benefits. They are also aligned on the importance of financial wellness programs and the impact of inflation.

Why it might be time to shift your pension investment game plan for 2025 and beyond.

Business solutions, including retirement and benefits, can help business owners retain and recruit an essential segment of the workforce: women.

While enactment of major retirement legislation in 2025 appears unlikely, there are several bipartisan retirement bills that are expected to be reintroduced. These bills signal a continued commitment to strengthening Americans’ retirement security.

Have you ever considered whether the employer contributions made to your employees’ retirement plans are being used to help make the maximum impact to both the company and participants?