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Is Automatic Enrollment Stuck?

After a surge in adoption following passage of the Pension Protection Act (PPA), automatic enrollment designs seem to have plateaued in industry surveys. What do you think? Has automatic enrollment gone as far as it’s going to take us?

While the aggregate trendline hasn’t moved much in a number of years, and though automatic enrollment continues to be (much) more prevalent among larger plans than smaller ones, a recent Bloomberg article described the phenomena drawn from the latest survey by the Society for Human Resource Management as, “Why Doesn’t Your Company Want You to Put More in Your 401(k)?

Those trendlines notwithstanding, earlier this year automatic enrollment was one of the most prevalent plan design concepts being “pitched” by NAPA Net readers.

This week, we’d like to know about your sense of automatic enrollment trends? Are we “done” with new adoptions? Why don’t more plan sponsors embrace the concept? And what about the trend associated with automatic enrollment – to (mostly) apply it only to new hires?

Let us know what you’re seeing – and thinking. Reply to this week’s NAPA Net reader poll at https://www.research.net/r/79QLJCG… and we’ll wrap it all up for you on Friday.

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