Defined Contribution

Automatic enrollment appears to be driving the participation growth.

Moodys has downgraded a number of states for various practices, such as taking pension holidays and deliberately ignoring required contributions.

Participants in defined benefit pension plans have a pretty good idea what their benefit will be when they retire. Not so for participants in defined contribution plans.

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The DOL believes participants may have difficulty envisioning the lifetime monthly income that can be generated from an account balance.

Most Americans will experience at least one derailing event and more than one-third will be struck by five or more.