Showing entries with the topic “Retirement Readiness”.
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Aug 2019The Roth Conundrum
With Roth utilization at next-to-nil levels in many retirement plans, the Roth marketing machine appears to have hit overdrive, as hardly a day goes by without an article touting the fantastic benefits of Roth contributions, as opposed to traditional 403(b)/401(k)/457(b) pre-tax deferrals. But is R…
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Aug 2019Is there a Retirement Crisis?
A recent article by PLANSPONSOR is the next in what appears to be a media blitz of pieces sending a similar message - there is a retirement crisis in this country. It’s not a pleasant picture to think about people retiring without enough money to live on, and this particular article incorporates all…
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Jul 2019Why Every Employee Should Be Auto-Enrolled
Back in April, I blogged about why auto-enrollment is always a good idea - but what I truly believe is that each and every employee in the country receiving a paycheck should be auto-enrolled in a retirement plan. Yes, every last one! New employees, existing employees, employees without retirement p…
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Jul 2019Participant Communication: Fun = Engagement
Here is a little exercise for the retirement plan sponsors out there: take the latest piece that you’ve sent (or are about to send) to plan participants, and show it to someone in your office who knows little about the topic. Ask them to read the communication, and then ask if it was fun to read. If…
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Jun 2019What is Happening to "Traditional" Retirement?
Know someone who retired at age 65 and lived out their golden years in paradise with no cares in the world? Well, I used to know people like that, but most of them are dead. While the growing FIRE (Financial Independence/Retire Early) movement is throwing the traditional age of retirement out the w…
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Jun 2019Retirement Lessons from the Four Seasons
Sorry to disappoint classical music fans out there, but, rather than Vivaldi, we are discussing the other Four Seasons. You know, the ones that were one of the best-selling musical groups of all time and also one of only two American groups to have hits both before and after the British invasion (th…
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Jun 2019Addressing the Affordability of Retirement Savings
Generally, the reason that employees fail to save for retirement is not because they don’t know the benefits of retirement savings. And, for the most part, it is not because they don’t believe in saving for retirement (although there are some with this mindset). No, the primary reason that people d…
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May 2019Retirement Plan Outcomes: The Missing Puzzle Piece
Most retirement plan sponsors, particularly large ones, have spent quite a bit of time and effort ensuring that their plans can survive an IRS Audit, DOL investigation, and/or litigation by closely reviewing investment arrays and fees. However, there is one simple and straightforward topic that has …
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May 2019The Future of Retirement Plans
In our Revamping Retirement podcast, we have been addressing the evolution of the retirement plan landscape over the past 25 years. And a lot has changed - from technology, plan design and investments, to, of course, fees. But what might the next 25 years have in store for the future generation of r…
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May 2019The Stock Market Darlings: Then and Now
In the recent episodes of our Revamping Retirement podcast, we have discussed the changes in retirement plans since I started working for Cammack Retirement Group way back in December of 1991 (yes, I’m old!). As you may imagine, things are quite different - from plan design, to investments, to techn…
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