It’s not altogether clear (to me at least) what insights one might glean from the answer(s) to that particular interview question. Of course, that might explain why it was voted the weirdest interview question in this week’s NAPA Net reader poll.Some people maintain that weird interview questions... READ MORE

The Department of Labor’s long-awaited fiduciary reproposal claims to protect consumers from “conflicts of interest” in retirement advice — but at what cost?While initial concerns about preserving the ability for 401(k) participants to work with the advisor of their choice on rollovers appear to be... READ MORE

Last week I highlighted three “myths” about the retirement system that will not die — all the more distressing because they are perpetuated by retirement industry pundits. Here are three more that (mostly) aren’t perpetuated by those who actually work with retirement plans, but by academics.... READ MORE

We live in an era of expanding electronic communications — but there are limits for ERISA plans, as a recent federal court ruling reminds us.As paper virtually disappears from the workplace, we will surely see a softening of the conditions imposed by the DOL on the electronic distribution of... READ MORE

There are a lot of things that can shake one’s confidence about retirement readiness — but American workers may be their own worst enemies.According to this week’s poll of NAPA Net readers, the most likely culprit behind retirement insecurity is not saving at all, with a close second being not... READ MORE

The United States Supreme Court recently agreed to hear another ERISA case, this one dealing with the ability of a plan fiduciary to recover an overpayment.The high court granted certiorari in the case of Montanile v. Board of Trustees of the National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan to decide... READ MORE

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You hear a lot of talk these days about measuring plan health, retirement readiness and plan outcomes. Realizing that each plan can have its own measure of success, in this week’s NAPA Net reader poll we asked how your plan sponsor clients measure plan success — and how that compares with the... READ MORE

New nonpartisan data has uncovered a major uptick in retirement confidence, as millions of Americans with access to workplace retirement plans finally took advantage of the wide array of resources long available to them.Those tools included the use of online calculators and the help of plan... READ MORE