Default features in defined-contribution plans are designed to improve the retirement security of plan participants. To … provisions for drawing down participant account balances after retirement could be beneficial. Conceptually, the objective is to …

advisers to retirement savers. The article also canvasses the customary role of an investment policy statement in promoting … that imposes on financial advisers to retirement savers “fiduciary” status under the Employee Retirement Income Security … Act. The Department reasoned that the fiduciary duty of loyalty was necessary to protect retirement savers from conflicted …

This paper evaluates a new variant of the popular target date funds used in employer-based retirement savings plans. We … call this new variant a "target retirement plan." Instead of increasing the allocation to bond funds as retirement … approaches, a target retirement fund gradually purchases deferred life annuities beginning at age 50. In the particular straw …