Stable Value and Millennials
by John Barrasso Let’s take a short quiz. Which group is more likely to consider a money market fund the best choice for their retirement nest egg? A. Retirees or near retirees B. Millionaires C. Millennials D. Managers of money market funds If you answered C, congratulations. You’re either an astute contrarian, or someone who’s […]
Stable Times Volume 20 Issue 2
Download PDF The biannual publication of the Stable Value Investment Association that covers both industry concerns and association activities. Table of contents: Stable Value Assets Continue to Grow Brexit and US Politics: What They Say about Voters’ Views Board Recognizes James King and Aruna Hobbs Voya Economist Sees Bond Yields Remaining Low Association Elects Three […]
How New DOL Fiduciary Rule May Impact Stable Value Industry
By Randy Myers A new fiduciary rule handed down by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) earlier this year will impact a wide range of constituents in the retirement industry, including the issuers of stable value contracts, according to industry experts who addressed the 2016 SVIA Fall Forum in Washington, D.C., in October. Unveiled […]
States Look to Close Retirement Plan Coverage Gap
By Randy Myers In a country where defined contribution plans have become the most common way to save for retirement in the workplace, many Americans are being left behind. According to a study by the Pew Charitable Trusts, about 40 percent of full-time private sector workers in the U.S. do not have access to […]
Wharton Professor David Babbel Finds More Reasons to Like Stable Value
By Randy Myers David Babbel, Professor of Finance and Professor Emeritus of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, has been a fan of stable value for the past decade. He has written several papers on the asset class since 2007, the first sponsored by the SVIA and the […]
Saving and Investing for Retirement: Surprising Mistakes People Make
By Randy Myers Everybody knows where Americans go wrong in saving and investing for retirement. They start too late. They save too little. They invest too conservatively—or too aggressively. They borrow from their retirement accounts. True enough. But as personal finance writer Martha Hamilton, now a Senior Editor at the International Consortium of Investigative […]
Litigation: The New Reality for Defined Contribution Plans
By Randy Myers For the past decade, sponsoring or servicing a retirement savings plan has been fraught with litigation risk. It could get worse. The targeting of retirement plans by the plaintiffs’ bar began in earnest in September 2006 when the St. Louis-based law firm of Schlichter Bogard & Denton filed lawsuits against several […]
Stable Value Masterclass on Asset TV
By Jane Marie Petty Four stable value industry experts recently participated in Asset TV’s Stable Value Masterclass. The panelists were James J. King, Managing Director and Client Portfolio Manager at Prudential Retirement; Warren Howe, National Director of Stable Value at MetLife; Karl Tourville, Founding Managing Partner of Galliard Capital Management; and Karen Chong-Wulff, Managing […]
A Consultant’s View on Defined Contribution Plans and Stable Value
By Randy Myers Target-date funds are capturing an increasing share of the assets in defined contribution retirement plans. But Jacob Punnoose, a Partner in Aon Hewitt Investment Consulting, says the future remains bright for stable value funds, too. Speaking at the 2016 SVIA Fall Forum, Punnoose said that even if stable value’s share of […]
