Plan fiduciaries are sometimes cautioned (often by legal counsel) about committing to putting in writing certain decisions, notably an investment policy statement. In fairness, the law does not ...

After intense last-minute negotiations, both houses of Congress approved the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act before their self-imposed July 4 deadline — clearing the measure for President Trump’s ...

Prime Capital's Stout said the announcement blends ASPPA and NAPA member expertise, taking the highly technical administrative knowledge the former provides and joining it with advisors.

Turning to participation rates, Vanguard notes that it has two measures, with the most common being the average rate among a group of plans (referred to as the plan-weighted participation rate). In ...

Both the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) were repealed by the Social Security Fairness Act. This affected Social Security’s costs at a time when the ...

Retirement income solutions are gaining traction, but that doesn't mean that it’s clear sailing for their adoption and in-plan use, nor even for active interest in them. Industry experts recently ...

The Senate on July 1 passed its version of the budget, formerly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Since the Senate version is different from that passed by the House, it must be approved by the ...

Massachusetts Secure Choice is closer to becoming more than a proposal. Both houses of the Bay State’s legislature on June 30 voted in favor of a measure that includes a provision that would create ...

Participant education is an ongoing concern for plan sponsors – including how one can cut through the clutter and engage employees, even for a few minutes, with understanding about their benefits and ...

Social Security’s 90th birthday is this year, Walker notes, and remains the “cornerstone of economic security in the United States” and “the backbone of economic security” in our country. Despite that ...

The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration announced on June 30 that it is removing some interpretive bulletins that had been relevant to administering retirement plans but ...

Beyond that, when you look inside the numbers of the Voya survey you see that just 17% of participants considered themselves VERY prepared — and only 27% of plan sponsors characterized their ...