Research Reports

Despite the recent stock market plunge, 401(k) plan sponsors are using a bevy of approaches to keep plan costs down.

Now, you can get benchmarks, survey results, and case studies to learn what your competitors are doing to control costs—and recommend and implement appropriate cost-cutting solutions for your plan.

Compiled by IOMA’s Managing 401(k) Plans newsletter research and editorial team, this report reveals clear and concise data to help you manage your plans efficiently and effectively.

By combining survey results and analysis with case studies, how-to tips and interviews with experts in one comprehensive volume, it covers key issues such as:

• 10 most effective ways to control plan costs
• Automatic enrollment & other autopilot steps
• What plan sponsors should do to avoid the rises and costs in the wake of the High Court’s LaRue Decision
• How do your 401(K) plan fees stack up
• How to reduce costs, conflicts, and risk with target-date strategies
• 10 Costly compliance errors 401(k) plan sponsors should avoid
• Oversight of service providers, fees tops 401(k) in-house tasks
• New Hewitt Study — Employers shift focus of 401(k) plans
• PSCA quantifies current 401(k) plan contributions
• Controlling the cost of investment advice
• Benchmarks for participation and deferral rates
• Getting the most from the investment consultant
• Plan administration & vendor changes
• Controlling fees
• The cost of fiduciary exposure

Plus, you get fingertip access to detailed charts, graphs, and tables that will enable you to make the best possible decisions in managing your 401(k) plan.