Showing entries with the topic “Technology”.
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Nov 2019How Much Does My Retirement Plan Cost?
Here’s an exercise for you: navigate to your recordkeeper’s website and see if you can determine the exact amount you are paying for your retirement plan. If you’re a plan fiduciary or someone who works with retirement plan benefits, you already know this cost, but play along anyway - you may be sur…
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Oct 2019How a Financial Wellness Expo Became the Hottest Ticket in Town
One of the biggest challenges for financial wellness programs is engaging employees. But what if I told you that one plan sponsor figured out how to pack a convention center with 3,000 people for a financial wellness expo? Yes, that is not a typo: three thousand people! This is not some retirement p…
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Oct 2018Budgeting and Retirement Plan Engagement
In this week's Top of Mind, Mike Webb shares how some retirement plan recordkeepers are using budgeting portals to help plan participants save more for retirement.
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Oct 2018Don’t Pay Full Price!
In this week’s Top of Mind, Mike Webb discusses how utilizing cost saving apps can help make saving for retirement more affordable.
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May 2018Did Someone Try to Hack My Retirement Account? My Personal Cybersecurity Issue
On a recent evening as I was catching up on emails, I received a verification code from my retirement plan’s recordkeeper. You know - those codes they send to verify that you are, in fact, you; particularly when you log in from a different computer? The trouble that evening was that I had not …
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Oct 2017The Retirement Fun House: The Battle to Engage Participants
In light of the fact that this week is National Retirement Security Week, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at what recordkeepers are doing on the front lines to motivate retirement plan participants to save, invest wisely, and otherwise ensure that their retirement is, well, secure.&…
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Jun 2017Catching Up with Recordkeeper Technology
I spend a lot of my on-the-job time researching the recordkeeping platforms of retirement plan sponsors. In the course of my research, as of late, I have come across an interesting phenomenon. For lack of a better term, I will call it technology lag. Recordkeeper technology, for the most pa…
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Aug 2016My Week Without a Smartphone
Mike Webb discusses how he survived a week without a smartphone.
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