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401(k) Participation Rates
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2020 Plan Sponsor Focus: Fees, Participant Communication
For the fourth year in a row, plan sponsors ranked “reviewing plan fees” as the most important step…
Business Owners Need Help in Communicating 401k Advantages
It won’t come as a surprise that business owners view 401ks as advantageous both for their business and…
4 Steps to More Effective 401k Plan Participation: Excel 401(k) Conference
Back in 2011, advisor Brad Arends was frustrated that one of his oldest and largest clients would not…
How to Build (and Judge) a Successful 401k Plan: Case Study
A leading heavy manufacturing firm in the Midwest recognized early on that the success of their 401k profit-sharing…
Climbing Participation, Contribution Rates a Good Sign for 403b Plans
403b plan participation and contribution rates are showing solid growth according to new data from non-profit organizations that…
401k Participation Rate Spikes as Workers Get Older
You might expect that participation rates in an employer’s 401k plan would be much higher for older workers,…
Average 401(k) Pretax Deferral Rate Hits All-Time High: T. Rowe Price
In what falls into the category of good news for retirement savings, the average pretax deferral rate in…
Marriage Spurs Bigger Participation, Contributions to 401k Plans
Because Millennials tend to marry later than previous generations, the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR)…
Bad Data Bunk—401k Coverage Isn’t ‘Falling’
Garbage in, garbage out. Any analysis is only worth the data on which it’s based, and with reports…
Shock (Not)! Automatic Enrollment Boosts Retirement Plan Participation
“Opt-in” versus “opt-out”—it’s one reason countries like Austria have such high organ donor rates when compared with their…