“I will look everybody in the eye from this room, and if we’re not changing, we’re not going to be in this room in 10 years,” Plan Design Consultants Inc. Partner and Director of Consulting Chad ...

Sam Brandwein, 2026 President of the American Retirement Association (ARA), on Oct. 18 hailed the importance of the organization and its role as a bipartisan advocate for the retirement industry and ...

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has asked the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to extend approval of information contained in the PBGC’s regulation of special financial assistance ...

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has raised the premium rates applicable for plan years beginning in 2027. It announced the 2027 rates on Oct. 14. The PBGC raised the rates in ...

For some time now, private-sector pension plans have been a relative table of plenty. They have been fully funded and then some. And even when their funding ratio falls slightly month-to-month the ...

Employees report feeling more positive about their wellbeing. But at the same time, they need and want support across all the moments that matter, not just during annual enrollment or when updating ...

Access to employer-provided retirement plan coverage is a key component of facilitating financially secure retirement for employees. But the benefits to employees are only part of the story, industry ...

The Senate on Sept. 29 passed The Claiming Age Clarity Act, a measure that would rename the Social Security claiming ages (62, 67, and 70). It is intended to better describe their relationship, and — ...

Participants now are allowed to self-certify a need for a hardship or in-service withdrawal. So have plan sponsors noticed an increase in withdrawals beyond what was expected? ad space A recent ...

Editor’s note: this is Part I in a two-part series about providing retirement plan education and why it is important. The new school year is well under way. And an increasing number of students will ...

SECURE 2.0 introduced the Saver’s Match, a matching contribution program paid by the Treasury Department to certain low-and moderate-income individuals saving for retirement. In ASPPA Focus 26-05, ...

September means harvest season, and this year it brought a modest yield for private-sector pension plans. More precisely, pension plans’ funding levels improved during September. And even though the ...