Across the country, employers are looking for ways to help workers secure their financial futures while steering out of the pandemic and related economic disruption. Retirement planning experts suggest focusing on impactful plan design features.
Automatic Default Components
With employers across industries looking for new ways to advance the financial well-being of workers, there are lots of benefit options being explored. Experts remind us that retirement plans are in many ways “the best-developed financial wellness benefit” available. With decades of research to draw on, plan sponsors can make informed decisions about retirement plan features to improve employee participation in plans, contribution levels and age-appropriate investment choices.
The Society for Human Resource Management reports:
Being thoughtful about plan design can dramatically improve employees’ chances of accumulating wealth and achieving a secure retirement. “What I have seen over a few decades and something that has accelerated over the past five years, is plan sponsors adopting smart plan designs that feature automatic default components in plans,” says Dave Stinnett, head of the Vanguard strategic retirement consulting team…. Stinnett…says these components include:
- Auto-enrolling employees in plans.
- Setting automatic payroll deductions.
- Automatically escalating employee contributions over time.
- Adopting automatic asset-allocation features, such as placing employees in target-date funds that feature low-cost, diversified assets and a risk profile appropriate to their age.
Disruption Creates Uncertainty
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