The current focus on retirement plan costs to participants provides a growth opportunity for the use of institutional investment products
in defined contribution plans.
From my start in investment writing over 20 years ago, I predicted that more corporate pensions would get frozen, terminated, and replaced
with defined contribution plans.
While traditional pensions promise retirees a fixed monthly benefit for the rest of their lives, 401 (k) s and other
defined contribution plans offer no such guarantees.
While traditional pensions promise retirees a fixed monthly benefit for the rest of their lives, 401 (k) s and
other defined contribution plans offer no such guarantees.
Over the last several decades, however, pensions have rapidly been replaced by
defined contribution plans like 401 (k) s, and those that remain are less generous.
Federal government policy, which has regulated defined benefit plans heavily and mandated plan designs for distributions, has tread more lightly
on defined contribution plans because of their historical secondary nature.
The difficulty here is that fees on small plans are sometimes high, and
defined contribution plans don't allow for easy examination of the total fee structures.
Despite a strong desire from the public for better retirement income options in 401 (k) plans, robust retirement income options are not widespread
among defined contribution plans.
Our full spectrum of defined contribution services and solutions enables us to help clients articulate plan objectives and understand employee populations to develop and
manage defined contribution plans.
Since both my wife and I have a defined pension plan, retirement savings is a bit easier for us than for those that have
only defined contribution plans as options.
Since
defined contribution plans focus on retirement asset accumulation and not retirement income as defined benefit plans do, it is important that you take control of your retirement income plan.
If the plan allows only seasoned money to be used to pay the insurance premiums, then the percentage limits
for defined contribution plans no longer apply.
As professionals, teachers should be empowered to choose between a properly funded
portable defined contribution plan and a properly funded defined benefit plan for their retirement.
According to Vanguard, one of the country's top administrator of
defined contribution plans such as 401 (k) s, only 12 % of plan participants contributed the maximum amount in 2016.
And no wonder: Pensions have mostly given way to so -
called defined contribution plans — think 401 (k), 403 (b) and 457 plan — which have placed the burden of investing to provide for a steady income on your shoulders.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo had proposed an
optional defined contribution plan in the Tier Six proposal, but it was altered to only narrowly included non-unionized workers after unions like CSEA and the Public Employees Federation decried the provision.
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. («PNC») uses the marketing names PNC Retirement Solutions ® and Vested Interest ® for non-discretionary
defined contribution plan services provided through its subsidiary, PNC Bank, National Association («PNC Bank»), which is a Member FDIC.
In response to the need for income - focused benchmarks
within defined contribution plans, on January 11, 2016 S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) launched the S&P Shift to Retirement Income and DEcumulation (STRIDE) Index Series.
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