SPARK Hosts Call on COVID19’s Impact on Retirement Plan Outsourcing
SPARK held a call on March 31st for member companies to discuss the impact that measures to address COVID 19 in the US, in India,…
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Managing the Retirement Plan Industry Challenges with Digital Transformation
The retirement plan industry is experiencing structural shift to improve competitiveness. New generation technologies can help meet the goals, but the journey will not be…
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Make financial wellness programs more valuable to users, quantify benefits to employers: Report
Financial wellness “sounds like a greater good upon which we can all agree” but, in practice, “earning the buy-in and support for these programs is…
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Why financial literary and financial wellness matter
Even as the move to Defined Contribution (or ‘DC’) plans gains more and more traction across the US, the need for financial literacy and financial…
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Data Analytics can help deliver competitive plans, work out retirement income
The retirement industry is inherently data-driven. Analyzing this data can give us trends and predictive models that can help us take smart and considered decisions.…
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History and evolution of retirement plans in the US
The beginning of the development of retirement plans in the US can be traced back to certain key events in American history. This unfolded alongside…
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Mobile and online capability essential for DC plan providers, millennials seek info from social media: Study
Retirement may be the last thing on the minds of millennials today. Many delay financial planning until it is absolutely required. This is also a…
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Why authentic leadership is important for transformation success; impact of MEPs, and the millennial connection
At the 2018 SPARK Forum (Nov 4-6th, in Florida), a session on Accelerating Service Delivery Transformation: Culture, Methodologies and Tools, threw up some interesting points…
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Behavior analysis can help improve retirement outcomes, says expert
The year 2019 could be the retirement industry’s year of looking forward and influencing better retirement outcomes for America, predicted Tim Rouse, Executive Director of…
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