The 2025 limits will reflect increases in the CPI-U from the third quarter of 2023 to the third quarter of 2024. The figures cannot be finalized until after September CPI-U values are published in ...

Help employees put plans in place. In 2023 research, Nationwide found that a strong majority of employees who are close to retirement – 88% – told them that they felt “more in control” of their ...

After a life-altering car crash, the Blue Benefits Consulting president reflects on the change and resilience she’s experienced over the past year.

By several measures, pension risk transfer costs have been down for the past several months, but the overall trend concerning PRTs still is up in the longer term, at least for now. Pension risk ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on Andrew Biggs’ intriguing new white paper titled “America’s ‘Retirement Crisis’: The Emperor Has No Clothes” that debunks the various claims ...

This improvement, after months of strong stock market gains, the survey found, is due largely to the active engagement of employees in managing their retirement accounts. Most workers (76%) check ...

WTW reports that it has found that only a little more than half - 52% - of employees think they are on the right track to retirement. Similarly, Nationwide, in its more recent Advisor Authority study, ...

There is work to be done on retirement plan websites and mobile applications, says a new study. As more retirement plan participants come to rely on digital channels for their primary means of ...

It appears nearly certain that the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will be lower for 2025 than it has been over the past couple of years. According to The Senior Citizens League, the ...

In that notice, the IRS extended and consolidated the deadlines for a retirement plan in accordance with major legislation enacted in the last five years, including the SECURE Act of 2019, the CARES ...

New guidance from the Department of Labor (DOL) for plan sponsors, plan fiduciaries, recordkeepers and plan participants provides best practices for maintaining cybersecurity, including tips on how to ...

A recent survey shows that 42% of plan sponsors have a systematic withdrawal plan available, but almost twice that percentage of participants are interested in strategies for drawing down savings ...