by Matt Eickman | Jun 28, 2019 | Blog
Taking a Stand for Participants Always beats taking the witness stand Plan sponsors really need to step back from time to time and ask themselves some serious questions. Matthew Eickman, the director of ERISA services for Prime Capital Investment Advisors and...
by Matt Eickman | Feb 26, 2018 | Participant Data, Retirement
After an incredibly smooth 2017, the U.S. markets have experienced headline-grabbing volatility early in 2018. Steep market free falls give rise to concerns that participants will exit the market on a dip and fail to re-enter until after the market has recovered. In...
by Matt Eickman | Jan 30, 2018 | Participant Data, Retirement
We talk a lot about automatic enrollment and automatic escalation. We also love to study industry data indicating related trends, which helps when our clients ask: “How many employers use automatic enrollment?” Results from a recent Callan survey show that...
by Matt Eickman | Jan 9, 2018 | Participant Data, Retirement
When asked about their plans for future savings rates, retirement plan participants frequently have the best of intentions. That’s even more likely when market performance has been strong. One late-December investor survey indicates this is case as investors...
by Matt Eickman | Nov 15, 2017 | Retirement
Some Republican lawmakers had floated a proposal of drastically reducing the annual limit on pre-tax contributions to a defined contribution plan. The QPA November newsletter celebrates that the House tax reform bill does not incorporate that proposal. The House bill...
