Job Posting: Lead Actuary – Stable Value with MassMutual
MassMutual is seeking an accomplished Leader and Actuary to join the company’s Institutional Actuarial team within MassMutual Institutional Solutions. The Institutional Businesses are undergoing growth and represent a key component of the company’s business strategy. In this manager role, the incumbent will utilize their leadership, influence, business and technical knowledge to influence strategy and execute […]
Get To Know Stable Value Funds (Again)
2018’s strong and steady asset performance has given way to much higher volatility. It’s a change driven to a large extent by tightening financial conditions. However, it’s also a shift likely to moderate over the next six months, which could mean a more positive environment for risky assets in the second half of the year. […]
Living with Tax Reform: Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
By now the outlines of the Tax Reform and Jobs Cuts Act of 2017 are well known. The Act dramatically lowered the corporate income tax rate to a flat 21 percent from a marginal top rate of 35 percent, and temporarily lowered tax rates for individuals. It also converted the U.S. from a worldwide to […]
How The Walt Disney Company Views Leadership
There are many stories about how Walt Disney created one of the world’s iconic entertainment brands. One that veteran Disney employee Steven Tinn likes to tell involves Disney’s first test ride on the Jungle Cruise ride that opened at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, in 1971. After stepping off the ride, in which guests […]
The Global Economic Expansion: What’s Next?
Is the U.S. economy peaking? The current economic expansion is already the third longest on record—about three times longer than the average—and Dan Roberts, chief investment officer for investment management firm MacKay Shields, says there are several signs it’s nearing a top. Among the most significant: The Federal Reserve is raising short-term interest rates, which […]
Political Analyst Charlie Cook Sees Democrats’ Chances of Claiming House on Upswing
When veteran political analyst Charlie Cook, editor and publisher of The Cook Political Report, spoke at the SVIA Fall Forum in October 2017, he pegged the odds of Democrats reclaiming control of the U.S. House of Representatives this fall at 40 percent. Fast forward six months, to Cook’s return appearance at the 2018 SVIA Spring […]
Stable Times Volume 22 Issue 1
Download PDF The biannual publication of the Stable Value Investment Association that covers both industry concerns and association activities. Table of contents: U.S. Retirement Market Trends: Assets Continue to Pour into IRAs, Target-Date Funds Using Behavioral Finance to Drive Outcomes for Retirement Plan Participants Health Savings Accounts: At the Intersection of Health Care and Retirement […]
U.S. Retirement Market Trends: Assets Continue to Pour into IRAs, Target-Date Funds
A number of trends are reshaping the retirement plan landscape in the United States. Retirement assets are growing, but more so in Individual Retirement Accounts than anywhere else. Assets in defined contribution plans are going up, but only because of capital market gains; in that segment, withdrawals have begun to outpace contributions. Meanwhile, target-date funds […]
Using Behavioral Finance to Drive Outcomes for Retirement Plan Participants
The retirement industry has long used a variety of metrics to measure the success of employer-sponsored retirement savings plans, including the percentage of eligible employees participating in a plan, how much they are saving, and how often they are engaging with their plan. Voya Financial, a diversified financial services firm and plan provider, now looks […]
