Far too many working Americans do not have ready access to a guaranteed lifetime income
stream as part of their 401(k) plan. While a growing number of employers have taken steps …

If defined contribution (DC) plan sponsors haven't already done so, they soon will be giving
serious consideration to providing retiring plan participants with options to convert at least a …

… The authors would like to thank Siddhi Doshi for outstanding research assistance and
Jody Strakosch of Strakosch Retirement Strategies, LLC for her very valuable edits and …

The shift in the US retirement system away from company pensions and towards individual
retirement accounts has placed greater responsibility on workers for ensuring the adequacy …

The Journal of Retirement aims to publish high-quality research across those disciplines
with the concepts and methods to illuminate retirement problems and solutions. The hope is …

Risk infuses everything we do so it goes almost without saying (but I’ll say it anyway) that risk
and retirement are highly intertwined topics. If we define what retirement researchers and …

This quarter, we have three articles, plus a new feature, where we invite scholars and
practitioners to argue for or against a policy position. In this edition of the journal, the policy …

Start-to-finish guidance toward building and implementing a robust DC plan Successful Defined
Contribution Investment Design offers a comprehensive guidebook for fiduciaries tasked …

The ultimate guidebook for navigating the new world of pensions and retirement plans In the
wake of the explosive growth of defined contribution (DC) plans invested with target date …

Using a portion of accumulated assets to purchase a longevity annuity--which provides
fixed income payments that begin in late old age with a substantial delay from the time the …