Employer Strategies

Companies are showing love to human resources as more capital is being spent on critical roles in departments across the country.

Plan sponsors must continue to offer automatic plan features and do a better job of vetting target-date funds.

Workers should start shoring up their savings by chipping in as much as they reasonably can to their employer’s retirement plan, especially if it comes with a matching contribution.

The sheer number of modest, inactive 401(k)s — along with the friction in the industry that makes it difficult to seamlessly transfer the balances from plan to plan as participants change jobs — is causing a lot of undue stress.

Employees often don’t save enough, and few utilize auto-escalation.

A new survey looks at trends in fees and investment options — and shows there’s lots of room for improvement.

Plan sponsors must continue to offer automatic plan features and do a better job of vetting target-date funds.

Companies are showing love to human resources as more capital is being spent on critical roles in departments across the country.

IT plays a major role, but advisers should first help HR develop an employee engagement goal, then use proper tools to achieve it.

The deal aims to expand the payroll provider’s HR outsourcing business.