Key Takeaways The typical employee contribution rate falls between about 8% and 10%, depending on the data source.When ...

Increasing health insurance premiums have been keeping employers up at night knowing they could be facing renewal increases of 25 to 30 percent. Health insurance helps with attracting and retaining ...

“Defined Contribution is attractive to employers because it caps costs and keeps them in the benefits business, not in the healthcare business,” said Levitt. Greg Scandlen, senior fellow in health ...

Dallas Salisbury is chief executive of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank on employee benefits issues. He has been with the institute since its founding in ...

Explore the differences between SEP and Keogh plans, designed for small business owners seeking higher retirement contributions. Choose the best option for your needs.

Workers broadly expect their defined contribution retirement plans, such as 401(k)s, to be their primary source of cash when they retire. However, many workers maintain a high level of anxiety about ...

After the Republican-controlled Florida legislature voted in June 2000 to introduce a defined contribution plan for the state’s 660,000 workers, surveys suggested that about half of them would shift ...

When an employer wants to provide additional benefits to executives, but does not want to provide these same benefits to rank-and-file employees, the employer must set up a non-qualified plan for the ...

Should defined-contribution plans offer exposure to private equity? Some investment advisors are now adding the asset class to the target-date strategies offered in their defined-contribution ...

Few people refer to their 401(k) as a “defined contribution plan.” In fact, many people appear to perceive a 401(k) or for that matter a 403(b) plan as an “investment plan.” Many employers view their ...

Britain’s Pantheon Ventures and Partners Group of Switzerland have spent several years developing private equity–centered investment products that offer daily valuations and liquidity for typically ...

The Netherlands is overhauling its €1.8tn pension system in a sweeping shift from guaranteed payouts to individual investment ...