3 retirement plan sponsor issues to work on in 2016

Plan sponsors are under growing pressure to help employees achieve a financially comfortable retirement, a Willis Towers Watson report says--and here are 3 issues to consider.

By Marlene Y. Satter | Updated on February 12, 2016

Defined contribution plan sponsors should be considering three issues in 2016 that pertain to their objectives.

That’s according to a Willis Towers Watson report, which says that as U.S. pension assets increasingly move over to DC plans—58 percent as of the end of 2014, compared with 52 percent in 2004—plan sponsors are under growing pressure to help employees achieve a financially comfortable retirement.

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