Third and Fourth Quarter of 2019 Stable Value Sales and Assets Survey
Participating companies reported stable value assets totaling $404.4 billion. Combined with General Account with Portfolio Guaranteed Rates, total qualified assets amount to more than $726.6 billion, an increase of 5 percent on a common company basis.
Presidential Election 2020: Who Will Find a Path to the White House?
How helpful are election polls 14 months ahead of the 2020 presidential election? “You can make the case … that President Trump could win in 2020,” Stephen Pastrick, a vice president in the government affairs office of Goldman Sachs, said in mid-October at the 2019 SVIA Fall Forum. “And you can make the case he’ll […]
Retirement Income: A Roadmap for Plan Sponsors
For years, employers have poured resources into helping employees save for retirement via workplace savings programs. They have spent far less time, energy and money helping workers figure out how to prudently spend down their savings once they’ve left the workforce. Now, that’s changing. With the baby boomer generation retiring in droves, providing drawdown options […]
Mixed Bag: How Americans View Their Financial Security
A number of important metrics suggest American workers should be in a good place financially. Unemployment levels are near historic lows. Participation rates in 401(k) plans are up, and according to Alight Solutions, a provider of benefits administration and human resources services, the average 401(k) account balance grew nearly 38% over the past eight years, […]
Stable Times Volume 23 Issue 2
The biannual publication of the Stable Value Investment Association that covers both industry concerns and association activities. Table of contents: Democratic Strategist Brazile Calls for Bridging Political Divide The 116th Congress: Outlook for Retirement and Health Initiatives Stable Value Grows Election 2020: Examining the Issues That May Decide the Presidential Race Navigating a Late-Stage Economic […]
Democratic Strategist Brazile Calls for Bridging Political Divide
Donna Brazile knows partisan politics up close—she twice served as interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, and she managed the presidential campaign of Democrat Al Gore in 2000. But the longtime political strategist says the hyper partisanship gripping the U.S. today is threatening the country’s democracy. “We’re at the point where I believe we’re […]
The 116th Congress: Outlook for Retirement and Health Initiatives
Could the SECURE Act finally be on its way to becoming law this year? Perhaps. But politics could get in the way. The legislation—more fully known as the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act—was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on a nearly unanimous vote in May. It would make significant changes […]
Stable Value Grows
It is accepted wisdom that stable value’s share of the defined contribution plan market has fallen since 2007, when the Department of Labor decided the asset class was not a Qualified Default Investment Alternative except under very limited circumstances. QDIAs offer a fiduciary safe harbor to plan sponsors, and it is true that since 2007 […]
Election 2020: Examining the Issues That May Decide the Presidential Race
After more than four decades as a Democratic pollster, Peter Hart knows there’s too much time between now and November 2020 to predict who the next president of the United States will be. But the founder of Peter D. Hart Research Associates has strong ideas about what will shape the outcome of the next presidential […]
