As 2026 begins, a new white paper by Mercer suggests that DC plan sponsors should consider a variety of issues as they head into the new year.
We have turned the page on 2025! The gym is crowded again (for now), and, as always, the retirement plan world is asking its favorite January question: Now, what changed this year again? Because every ...
More employers are pledging that they will participate in offering Trump Account matches for their employees’ children.
How did the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation do in 2025 in the interactions and processes through which it fulfills its mission? The PBGC’s Office of the Participant and Plan Sponsor Advocate ...
A new report suggests that for some, required minimum distributions (RMDs) are not only a support — they can also be a challenge. Vanguard found that 6.7% of investors with a Vanguard-administered IRA ...
The newest digital edition of ASPPA’s Plan Consultant magazine is posted online! Knowledge is power, and central to retirement readiness, but there has been much discussion of troubling gaps in ...
The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) average wait times for calls improved in fiscal year (FY) 2025, says a report the SSA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has issued. The report, issued ...
F, Qualified Disaster Retirement Plan Distributions and Repayments, and its instructions; the biggest change is that they reflect a revised naming convention for IRAs.
Rage bait ignores that today’s VOLUNTARY retirement system has helped millions accumulate meaningful savings. Let’s instead highlight the very real possibilities that the current system can and has ...
The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA) can resume its policy agenda now that the 43-day shutdown is in the rear-view mirror. Recent actions and EBSA’s most ...
The Department of Labor is now backing fiduciaries in a case involving criteria for a “meaningful” benchmark, on the same day of its recent amicus briefing supporting plan fiduciaries regarding the ...