by siteadmin | Mar 7, 2016 | 401k Insight, Retirement, Retirement Plan Advice, Retirement Plan News
Lifetime Income Vs. Outliving Your Money Kelli Hueler, CEO and founder of Hueler Companies, a stable value consulting and data research firm, remembers when it first struck her. The next big risk for U.S. investors wasn’t a dramatic market decline, but...
by siteadmin | Feb 29, 2016 | 401k Insight, Retirement, Retirement Plan Advice, Retirement Plan News
When investing in a 401(k) plan, many participants are unsure about what percentage of their salary they should contribute. Select an amount too low, and they risk not having sufficient savings for retirement. Select a percentage too high, and they fear not...
by siteadmin | Feb 20, 2016 | plan administration, Retirement, Retirement Plan Advice, Retirement Plan News
According to a March 2014 Employee Benefit Research Institute survey, almost half of all workers without a retirement plan responded that they were not at all confident they would be financially secure in retirement. In contrast, only one out of 10 with a...
by siteadmin | Feb 15, 2016 | 401k Insight, Alliance Benefit Group, plan administration, Retirement, Retirement Plan News
Alliance Benefit Group board member Larry Raymond remembers when Alliance Benefit Group (ABG) was just an idea.”We saw the markets change and determined if we were to survive and offer the best solutions for our clients, we needed to leverage our collective...
by siteadmin | Feb 7, 2016 | 401k Insight, Retirement, Retirement Plan Advice, Retirement Plan News
According to industry publication Pension and Investments, cash balance plans are a growing segment of the defined benefit plan universe and could soon be as readily available as 401(k)s. A cash balance plan is a type of defined benefit plan funded by the employer...
by siteadmin | Feb 1, 2016 | 401k Insight, Retirement, Retirement Plan Advice, Retirement Plan News
Since their introduction in the late 1970’s, 401k retirement plans have evolved into the primary retirement planning vehicle for many Americans. Recently there have been a number of developing trends with respect to 401k plans that bear watching as plan...
by siteadmin | Jan 25, 2016 | Retirement, Retirement Plan Advice, Retirement Plan News
The protracted low-interest rate environment is taking its toll on defined contribution plan participants, particularly conservative investors approaching retirement age, said Zac Burns, CFA, Vice President of Investments at Pension Corporation of America and Chairman...
by siteadmin | Jan 18, 2016 | 401k Insight, equity funds, plan administration, Retirement, Retirement Plan Advice, Retirement Plan News
At the end of 2011, 61 percent of 401(k) assets were invested in equities through equity funds, the equity portion of balanced funds, and company stock, down slightly from 62 percent the prior year, the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and the Investment...
by siteadmin | Jan 11, 2016 | plan administration, Retirement Plan Advice, Retirement Plan News
The improper exclusion of an eligible employee is a common error that retirement plans commit. This can happen for any number of reasons. In some cases, plan administrators make a mistake when applying the plan’s eligibility requirements or the plan’s...
by siteadmin | Jan 4, 2016 | 401k Insight, Retirement, Retirement Plan News, roth
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, aka the Fiscal Cliff Legislation, contained a provision that allows retirement plan participants to convert their pre-tax funds in a 401(k), 403(b), or government 457 plan into an In-Plan Roth 401(k) account. Prior to the...
