Retirement planning

Great-West Retirement Services has appointed Carey Lindsey as regional sales director for Houston.

Progressive companies say benefits help retain employees, increase employee productivity, and help attract talent, according to survey results.

Great-West Retirement Services has appointed Carey Lindsey as regional sales director for Houston.

Third-party administrator CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc. today revealed it added the Alta Trust Tactical Advantage collective investment trust funds to its retirement plan platform.

Ross Sims, previously at ING Financial Advisors, joins RIA and broker-dealer Atlanta Capital Group as a retirement plan specialist and managing partner.

Castle Rock Investment Company has added Kristen Sanchez as Director of Communications. In her new role, Sanchez will gdevelop and implement a strategy to effectively communicate the firmfs ability to help plan sponsors reduce their liability while optimizing their plans,h according to the firm.

The company with the best retirement plan in New York is Deloitte, according to investment analytics firm BrightScope’s ranking of the top 25 New York City area 401(k) plans.

Investment analytics provider BrightScope unveils its second annual rankings list of New York City area companies that have 401(k) plans with more than $100 million in assets.

Investment analytics provider BrightScope today released its second annual rankings list of New York City area companies that have 401(k) plans with more than $100 million in assets.

The Retirement Plans Division of Mutual of Omaha is launching an online education system called SmartPlan Enterprise to provide risk tolerance and investment strategies to its participants.

Retirement executives at Fidelity Investments today have a few billion reasons to smile. That’s because the plan provider has renewed its contract with Raytheon Company, a technology and defense company, through 2017. The two companies have a 20-year relationship that began in 1992.

ING has released a new mobile application that allows ING retirement plan participants to access and manage their retirement plan account information in transit.

ING today released a new mobile application that allows ING retirement plan participants to access and manage their retirement plan account information in transit.

Great Bend, K.S.-based CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, a third-party admnistrator for retirement plans, has named 25-year veteran Jon Prescott as its president.

San Francisco, Calif-based Forward Management, LLC today unveiled its latest offering, the Forward Managed Futures Strategy Fund, a systematic, trend-following vehicle that will bet long and short exposure on liquid futures contracts in commodities, equities, bonds and currencies.

Nearly one out of four pension plan participants invest solely in target-date funds, according to new research released from The Vanguard Group—a six-fold increase over the past five years. Further, adoption of these funds among new plan participants is even higher, with 64% of employees entering plan for the first time with a single target-date fund.

Investment education company FiPath has hired Michael Turgeon as managing director of Advisor Services.

Nearly one out of four pension plan participants invest solely in target-date funds, according to new research released from The Vanguard Group—a six-fold increase over the past five years.

More than half of those surveyed have investable assets of less than $25,000.

Although defined contribution fund managers pay lip service to global investment opportunities, many DC plans actually have a “home bias” in their investments and are severely underweighted in their overseas exposure, according to a paper released by OppenheimerFunds, Inc.