Retirement

The submission deadline has been extended for Employee Benefit Adviser’s annual awards recognizing excellence and leadership in the field.

Clients will be better off using the income allocation strategy than the asset allocation approach when building a retirement portfolio, an advisor says.

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Employers and employees both say programs are necessary to help manage debt and prepare for retirement, but participation still lags.

Employees are advised to start looking for coverage in the marketplace, which will be open for 2019 enrollment from Nov. 1 through Dec. 15.

The program, which launched earlier this year, has helped the company “stand out in a crowd of other employers,” its benefits manager said at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Mania.

Retirees may have gotten out of the workforce too early if they are not yet eligible to claim health coverage through Medicare.

Many workers are not financially stable and not prepared for retirement, according to the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, resulting in an increase in onsite financial programs.

Employers looking to beef up retirement strategies must talk with lawmakers and adopt new strategies to create innovative ways to better prepare workers for post-work years.

This does not mean that plan sponsors and committee members cannot insist on getting non-conflicted fiduciary advice; it just makes their job harder.