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Defined Contribution Plan (DC Plan)
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A defined contribution (DC) plan is a type of retirement plan where the employer, employee, or both, make regular contributions to individual accounts for each participant. The final benefit amount depends on the contributions made and the investment performance of those contributions, rather than being predetermined. Common examples include 401(k) plans and 403(b) plans.
‘Next-Gen’ CIT for 401(k) Market Coming in Q2 from Apollo, Schroders
Partnership announced today designed to leverage the best of large global asset managers to deliver improved client outcomes
Americans Without Access to Workplace Retirement Plan Probably Not Saving at All
New NIRS report finds many still lack access to employer-provided plans and tend not to save for retirement because of it
Blackstone Joins Empower’s Private Markets Investment Partnership Program
Move brings additional global scale and alternative-asset leadership to the recordkeeper’s retirement-plan private markets initiative
DC Participants Open to Private Markets—and AI—with Guardrails: Invesco Survey
Invesco’s Winter 2026 DC Participant Pulse Survey finds 80% comfortable allocating a slice of retirement savings to private market alternatives, while more than half already use AI-powered tools
TIAA Pushes 6% Default Contribution Rate in New Retirement Security ‘Policy Roadmap’
While SECURE 2.0 allows for 3% to 10% default rates, new framework encourages plan sponsors and policymakers to make 6% the starting point
2025: A Breakthrough Year for Portability
Tom Hawkins explains how auto portability is quickly moving from an emerging concept toward a scaled capability within the DC system
Measuring Retirement Income Outcomes: Allianz Life’s Danielle Kelso
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America’s latest white paper takes a deep look at how different retirement…
Plan Sponsors See Private Markets Investments Improving Retirement Outcomes
HarbourVest Partners survey finds 86% view diversification across private assets as key guardrail for managing risk
Public Pension Benefits Dip in Value, Especially for Short and Mid-Term Workers
Full-career workers can still achieve adequate retirement income despite the drop
Alternatives Gain Ground Among Plan Advisors After Federal Policy Shift
New research from Escalent finds one quarter of defined contribution plan advisors likely to recommend alternatives and 10% are already doing so