Dr. Brown shares his thoughts on how the defined contribution system could leverage its resources and expertise to provide a new tool for managing the key risks in retirement – longevity, medical expenditures and inflation – with a holistic Retirement Security Product (RSP)

Administration of defined contribution retirement plans is generally outsourced by plan sponsors to third-party financial institutions, resulting in two primary types of plan fees. While investment fund fees in defined contribution plans have been heavily scrutinized, the administrative fees...

Collectively, Americans are woefully unprepared financially for retirement. This retirement problem actually reflects a collection of diverse issues. This paper identifies the most important ones: longevity; access; contributions; portability; behavioral mistakes; funded status; expenses; and...

Robert Powell, Retirement Management Journal editor-in-chief; David John, a nonresident senior fellow in economic studies at Brookings and a senior strategic policy advisor at the AARP Public Policy Institute focusing on pension and retirement savings issues; and Nevin Adams, then chief content...

Almost a century and half of evidence suggests that only individuals who start saving for retirement in the later stages of population busts and the early stages of population booms spend most of their retirement planning phase in bull stock markets with tame inflation, thus benefiting greatly...

The premise of this article is that there is no effective scientific approach to retirement financial planning. Given this, it is incumbent upon us to thoroughly understand our present financial position and then evaluate how we will manage our finances given a range of possible future outcomes....

An important challenge facing employees and societies is saving and investing sufficient funds for a comfortable retirement. Research shows that human financial decision-making behavior is not always rational and that public trust in the economy can be lost. Surprisingly, neither better...

The trend towards eliminating defined benefit (DB) pension plans in favour of defined contribution (DC) plans implies that increasing numbers of pension plan participants will bear the risk that final realized portfolio values may be insufficient to fund desired retirement cash flows. We compare...

This article calls attention to the Department of Labor's imposition of the “prudent investor rule” on financial advisers to retirement savers. The article also canvasses the customary role of an investment policy statement in promoting compliance with the prudent investor rule by...