Includes roles of products and comparison how they can meet client needs and expectations.
DC Forum
www.bgidcsolutions.com
For many DC plans, the current financial crisis may be the tipping point. Plan sponsors across the country continue field calls from participants worried about the financial crisis and its impact on retirement savings...view
Business Week
2/5/2009, www.businessweek.com
For many DC plans, the current financial crisis may be the tipping point. Plan sponsors across the country continue field calls from participants worried about the financial crisis and its impact on retirement savings...view
3/1/2007, www.milliman.com
A recent convergence of new, analytical rigor and computational power allows sophisticated risk-management techniques to be applied even to...view
1/2007, www.ifebp.org
Immediate fixed life annuities can play an important role in the distributions from defined contribution plans, to reduce the risk of outliving assets during retirement. Lifetime payouts from these traditional commercial products, however...view
Watson Wyatt
11/21/2008, Investment Advisor, www.watsonwyatt.com
The last 10 years have seen a shift in the U.S. retirement system. Some large employers have switched from defined benefit (DB) plans...view
Watson Wyatt
www.watsonwyatt.com
The last 10 years have seen a shift in the U.S. retirement system. Some large employers have switched from defined benefit (DB) plans...view
Institutional Investor
11/12/2008, www.iimagazine.com
Insurance companies are racing to develop annuities for 401(k) plans, and participants just may bite in the current market...view
Vanguard Center for Retirement Research
12/18/2008, www.Researchmag.com
The Vanguard Center for Retirement Research has just released its new report, The Retirement Income Landscape. The report analyzes conventional strategies as well as innovative ways to translate lump-sum savings into a stream of income in retirement-from...view
Products, Trends & Strategies: Highlights new products in development/ introduced and how they address market trends and strategies. Could also include income adequacy and company portfolio strategy articles.
US News
05/1/2009, www.usnews.com
With life expectancies on the rise, millions of people are now facing the challenge of how to support themselves into their 80s, 90s, and even beyond. Longevity insurance is...view
Plan Sponsor
06/2009, www.watsonwyatt.com
Our current attitude about retirement and 401(k)s seems to be that, when an employee retires, he will roll his money into an IRA and manage it in away that the income lasts until he dies, regardless of whether it is at age 70 or 100. However, that might be wishful thinking...view
06/2009
A white paper from Fred Reish (hired by Mass Mutual) on the fiduciary considerations of offering such products in 401(k) plans...view
In this paper, the authors address how and why target-date funds will become more dominant than previously thought in attracting 401(k) assets. The paper discusses that further innovation is likely in the target-date marketplace as a growing number of plan sponsors are signaling that they want to continue managing participant assets after retirement, and are looking for solutions that assist with decumulation issues and retirement income provisions...view
Watson Wyatt
www.watsonwyatt.com
This article examines the benefits associated with expanding DC plan investment options to include annuities...view
Focused primarily on asset allocation strategies and approaches for clients.
Watson Wyatt
www.watsonwyatt.com
Defined contribution (DC) plan participants in the private sector who are younger, better-educated, more risk-tolerant, and have an employer-sponsored...view
Watson Wyatt
www.watsonwyatt.com
This paper derives optimal equity-bond-annuity asset portfolios for households in the retirement phase who, with or without a bequest motive, face stochastic capital market...view