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401(k) automation may have peaked

The Callan Investment Institutes latest study finds that auto-enrollment is primarily targeted at new hires, not existing employees.

By Matthew Stern | Updated on January 15, 2015

Automation is a hot topic in defined-contribution plans, but while there has been a steady increase in the adoption of features such as automatic re-enrollment and other automatic plan features, they still haven’t reached ubiquity and might never get there.

That is one conclusion that can be found in the Callan Investment Institute’s “2015 Defined Contribution Trends” study, based on a survey last fall that included 144 plan sponsors at large and mega 401(k) plans, as well as some government and not-for-profit plans.

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