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9780470632888

Designing Successful Target-Date Strategies for Defined Contribution Plans : Putting Participants on the Optimal Glide Path

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470632888

  • ISBN10:

    0470632887

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2010-03-01
  • Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

The ultimate guidebook for navigating the new world of pensions and retirement plansIn the wake of the explosive growth of defined contribution (DC) plans invested with target date strategies, and the understanding of how important these strategies can be in effectively meeting retirement income goals, plan sponsors are seeking more optimal target date approaches. This timely book provides you with in-depth answers from the nation's most qualified and experienced experts to pressing questions about DC plan design. Presents the views of individuals from all across the market Includes a broad range of plan sponsors both in the corporate world and in the public/government sectors Offers views from consultants and advisors from the most respected firms, academics who teach at leading universities, and other innovative leadersWith a broad range of knowledge and insight, Designing Successful Target Date Strategies in Defined Contribution Plans helps you understand the evolution of DC plans, pulls together all angles of what it takes to develop custom target date strategies, and provides you with a look ahead to the future.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgments
DC Plan Evolution and Design Trends
DC Plans in the American Retirement System
Evolution of DB and DC Plans
Making the Move from a DB Plan to a DC Plan
How Do We Measure DC Plan Success?
What Is a Qualified Default Investment Alternative?
Is Automatic Enrollment Enough?
Auto-Escalation: How Much Is Enough?
How Much Should We Save to Beat Inflation?
Preparing for Retirement in an Economic Downturn
What the Future May Hold for DC Plans
In Closing
Evolving DC Plan Design
Investment Structure of Defined Contribution Plans
Future of DC Plan Investment Design
Tier I: Qualified Default Investment Alternatives-Asset-Allocation Strategies
Tier II: Core Investment Offerings in DC Plans
Tier III: Brokerage or Mutual Fund Window
Tier IV: Passive Investment Strategies?
Evolving Structures and Alternative Investment Strategies
Bringing It All Together: DC Investment Structure and Guarantees
In Closing
Target-Date Strategies: Packaged versus Custom
Why Plan Sponsors Create Custom Target Retirement-Date Strategies
Intel: Building Is Better than Buying
Verizon: Well Worth the Effort
In Closing
Development of Custom Target-Date Retirement Strategies
Legal and Fiduciary Considerations
Common Legal Questions Regarding DC Plans
Investment Policy Statements and Governance
Target-Date Strategies on the Hot Seat
What May Lie Ahead in Legislation of Target Strategies
In Closing
Record Keeping and Trust
Two Basic Approaches to Setting Up Record Keeping
Custom Target Strategies Lead to New Record-Keeping Approaches
Pros and Cons of Alternative Operational Approaches
Questions to Pose to Your Record Keeper
Key Considerations to Determine Which Approach to Choose
Establishing and Maintaining Operations
Conversion of Target Risk to Target Date
Fee Allocations and Disclosures
Rebalancing the Target-Date Strategies
Deluxe Corporation: Seamless Operational Setup and Rollout Communication
How Record Keepers and Trustees Support Operations
In Closing
Communication Challenges and How to Meet Them
Common Myths Surrounding Custom Target-Strategy Communication
Communicating the Benefits of Target-Date Strategies
Communication: Strategies to Keep It Simple
Communication Tools
Helping Plan Participants to Visualize Their Postretirement Future
Communications and the Switch to DC Custom Strategies
Communication Challenges during an Economic Downturn
In Closing
Evaluating Costs in Custom Strategies
Why Costs Matter
Have You Calculated and Reduced Total Plan Cost?
Keeping Fees Reasonable
Unbundling Can Keep Down Costs
Custom Strategies and the Value of Unitizing
Experts Discuss Fee Transparency
ERISA Section 404(c) and Fee Disclosure
Costs of Implementing and Running Custom Target Strategies
In Closing
Designing and Benchmarking Custom Target-Date Strategies
Glide-Path Design
An Academic Look at Creating Optimal Asset-Allocation Strategies
A Practitioner's Look at Creating Optimal Asset-Allocation Strategies
DC Plan Success Requires a New Approach
Evaluating the Probability of Meeting DC Retirement-Income Goals
Evaluating Risk-Factor Exposures in Target-Date Glide Paths
Plan Sponsor Approaches to Custom Target-Date Strategies
In Closing
Asset Classes and Alternatives
Clearing the Decks: Offering a Brokerage Window to Participants
Typical DC Core Investment Offerings
Simplify, Simplify, Simplify
Simplify yet Diversify
Suggested Core Investment Lineup
Adding Alternatives to Target-Date Strategies
In Closing
Helping Protect DC Assets from Risk
How Do We Experience Risk?
Market Impact on DC Participant Accounts
No Place to Hide
What Are the Main Types of Risk?
Helping Protect DC Participant Assets from Risks
Importance of Tail-Risk Hedging
In Closing
Approaches to Benchmarking
Introduction to Target Date Benchmarking and the Measure of Success
Common Approaches to Benchmarking Target-Date Strategies
Benchmarking Managed Accounts
In Closing
Looking to the Future
Financial Education, Advice, and Retirement Planning
Why Plan Sponsors Provide Education and Advice
Is Advice Needed When a Plan Has Auto-Enrollment and Target-Date Strategies?
Education and Advice Offered by Plan Sponsors
Evolution from Education to Managed Accounts
Comparison of Managed Accounts and Custom Target-Date Strategies
Advice beyond Asset Allocation
Advice beyond Advice Models
What Is Financial Planning?
Financial Planning Process
Financial Planning Fees
In Closing
Retirement Income and Guarantees
Encourage Participants to Stay in the Plan or Go?
In-Plan Guaranteed Income Solutions
Plan Sponsors Exploring Guarantees
Allowing Consolidation of Outside Assets into the Plan
In Closing
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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