Though RPAs loathe comparisons to law firms, advisers are professional service providers like lawyers and accountants who charge based on the work and time spent. More experienced professionals can charge a higher hourly rate – and last time I checked, few of them are hurting.
The manager of public sector retirement plans will offer personalized advice to participants.
Despite often having unwieldy investment menus, government DC plans are concentrated in large-cap U.S. equity and stable value, according to a recent report from the Public Retirement Research Lab.
The measure proposed by Sens. Warren and Daines addresses the $8.5 billion sitting in lost retirement plan accounts.
The firm is reducing fees and is adding a mutual fund version of its Retirement Blend series, which has existed since 2018 in CIT form.
The bipartisan bill aims to help the 52% of employees in the state who don't have access to a retirement plan at work.
Bipartisan legislation proposed by Sens. Cardin and Portman aims to help boost savings.
A class-action lawsuit alleges that the company breached its fiduciary duties in connection with a change in the investment menu. Most of the assets in the $1.4 billion plan went into Russell Investment target-date funds, according to the complaint.
The median level of debt for people over age 50 has tripled over the past 30 years, according to a recent analysis by the Government Accountability Office.
The legislation introduced Thursday would amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act to specifically allow plans to consider ESG factors 'when they are expected to have an impact on investment outcomes, provided plans consider them in a prudent manner consistent with their fiduciary obligations.'
Best Buy and ADP have joined Voya, UPS, Mastercard and others in working with BlackRock's Emergency Savings Initiative.
Companies that have waded into the PEPs business as pooled plan providers see tax-exempt organizations as very attractive, having even more potential than groups eligible to operate 401(k)s.
The states advanced respective bills, with the one in New York amending its voluntary IRA law to an automatic design and the one in Illinois dramatically lowering the threshold for mandatory participation in its existing program.
It can close the savings gaps for employees and create revenue opportunities.
About 800 T. Rowe employees will be offered jobs with FIS; the transition is effective Aug. 1.
Selling unneeded insurance policies to a third party can provide retirees with needed income.
The fight for the default option, like the competition to be a plan’s record keeper or adviser, could change the largely cooperative DCIO landscape.
Although sales figures were down considerably for most categories compared with the first quarter of 2020, fixed-rate deferred annuities and registered index-linked annuities, or RILAs, saw purchases up by 46% and 89%, respectively, according to a report from Limra’s Secure Retirement Institute.
The agency says it's revising Publication 590-B, which caused the confusion about the 10-year rule on required minimum distributions under the SECURE Act.
When it comes to special-needs planning, the answer is seldom easy. The decisions about whether a special-needs child would benefit from guardianship and conservatorship in adulthood and if so, who will be their guardian and oversee their trust, are important.
