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New results recently reported by NAPA indicate that most 401(k) consultants support additional services in DC plans. PIMCO’s 12th annual Defined Contribution Consulting Support and Trends Survey included 77 consulting firms, representing 17,000 plan sponsors with $4.4+ trillion in plan assets. 64% of those responding indicated they think plans should offer a “separate retirement income...Read More

The 28th annual Retirement Confidence Survey conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute reported that only 17% of surveyed employees “feel very confident in their ability to live comfortably in retirement” as recently reported in Plan Sponsor. Here are some of their findings: 3 in 10 employees with a DC plan intend to move “at...Read More

“There is a disconnect between Baby Boomers’ current financial status and where they perceive themselves in retirement,” explains Richard Burns, President and CEO of The NHP Foundation. The struggle here is the “wishful thinking” that transfers onto greater possible consequences that impacts “throughout all areas of the economy.” Discovery of this was surveyed by The...Read More

Usage of Roth options have significantly grown over the past decade. The availability of having Roth offered increased to about 63 percent of plans in 2016 in comparison to only around 30 percent in 2007. These results were obtained from a recent survey of Profit Sharing and 401(k) Plans by the Plan Sponsor Council of...Read More

The Employee Benefits Security Administration’s fiscal year coincides with that of the federal government – October 1 through September 30, and the numbers for 2017 are in, and have been reported by NAPA Net. Briefly, the agency’s total monetary recoveries for 2017 was $1.1 billion in direct payment to plans, participants and beneficiaries, vs. $777.5...Read More