Retirement benefits

Low participation rates shouldn’t stop advisers from offering the service, but rather provide an opportunity to gather success stories and improve engagement.

The retirement plan gives employees freedom to direct investments and to accumulate savings.

High-yield or junk bonds, equities, and real estate investment trusts are excellent investment options for IRAs.

PCSA Chairman Ken Raskin says the organization will keep existing events and products, add additional resources and educational services.

Employee Benefit Adviser, in partnership with business intelligence data analytics firm miEdge, lists leading retirement plans for employers with 1,000 or more participants.

With employees now seeking targeted, personalized options, employers should turn to solutions such as medical opinion and decision support services.

Retirement readiness would vastly improve by requiring auto features, increasing HSA contribution limits, and outlawing participant loans, among other recommendations, says adviser Robert Lawton.

Retirement Adviser of the Year Bob Judd shares how escaping the traditional ‘sell, sell, sell’ environment transformed his business.

Hours after House Republicans jubilantly passed their tax bill, their colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee approved a far different version – one that postpones difficult questions as lawmakers rush to refashion much of the U.S. economy on a tight deadline.

Employee Benefit News, in partnership with business intelligence data analytics firm miEdge, lists leading retirement plans for mid-size companies