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 […]
Election 2020: Veteran Pollster Examines 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 safely predict who the next president of the United States will be. But the founder of Peter D. Hart Research Associates has some strong ideas about what will shape the outcome of the […]
Stable Times Volume 23 Issue 1
Download PDF The biannual publication of the Stable Value Investment Association that covers both industry concerns and association activities. Table of contents: Stable Value: The Consultants’ View The Shift: Fed Makes U-Turn on Monetary Policy On Deck: What the 116th Congress is Doing About Retirement A Precarious Existence: Transamerica Study Finds Retirees’ Financial Health at […]
Stable Value: The Consultants’ View
For years, stable value providers have known their success depends on winning the confidence not just of retirement plan sponsors and participants but also plan consultants. In April, the stable value industry took advantage of the 2019 SVIA Spring Seminar to find out how consultants are thinking about stable value products and what they’re hearing […]
The Shift: Fed Makes U-Turn on Monetary Policy
For the Federal Reserve, it’s all about inflation right now. After raising the federal funds rate nine times since December 2015, the Fed’s summary of economic projections now implies no rates hikes in 2019, down from previous expectations for two, and just one in 2020. In addition, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has suggested the Fed […]
On Deck: What the 116th Congress Is Doing About Retirement
Passing retirement legislation proved difficult in the 115th Congress, in which Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress. Could things proceed more smoothly in the 116th, now that Democrats have regained control of the House while Republicans remain in charge of the Senate? Actually, they may, says Angela Montez, senior vice president, general counsel and chief […]
A Precarious Existence: Transamerica Study Finds Retirees’ Financial Health at Risk
On the surface, life after work would seem to be pretty good in the U.S. right now. In a new survey of more than 2,000 retirees by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, 86% of the respondents said they are enjoying life. Six in 10 are spending time with family and friends, approximately four in […]