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Financial Education Offered by Employers
All Plans <$1mm $1mm-$5mm
Saving strategies/prioritization
Financial markets/Investing basics
Budgeting
Rolling over past balances into the plan
Rollover options for separating employees
Retirement health care costs/savings options
Social Security withdrawal options/strategies
Credit/Debt management
College saving
Adviser Fiduciary Status
44% 19% 28%
36% 15% 25%
29% 13% 16%
29% 14% 22%
27% 13% 20%
26% 10% 13%
21% 8% 10%
19% 6%
17% 6%
8%
9%
Plan Design
Plan Design Elements
All Plans <$1mm $1mm-$5mm
Automatic enrollment
Automatic escalation
Investment policy statement
Loan provision
Safe harbor
Roth feature
Fee equalization policy
Participation Eligibility
46% 19% 24%
38% 13% 17%
69% 35% 49%
92% 84% 89%
54% 72% 66%
72% 59% 69%
32% 17% 18%
All Plans
<$1mm
All Plans
<$1mm
$1mm-$5mm
$1mm-$5mm
All Plans <$1mm $1mm-$5mm
l 3(38) fiduciary
l 3(21) fiduciary
l Adviser is not a plan fiduciary
l Unsure/Don't know
All Plans <$1mm $1mm-$5mm
17% 15% 15%
37% 15% 24%
13% 13% 17%
34% 58% 44%
Does Your Plan Employ a Third Party as a 3(16) Fiduciary?
Automatic Features
Auto-Enrollment Default Deferral Rate
All Plans
<$1mm
$1mm-$5mm
l Immediately upon hire
l Within 3 months of hire
l Within 4 - 11 months of hire
l At 1 year from date of hire
l After >1 year from date of hire
37% 22% 20%
28% 21%
26%
13% 18% 17%
21% 38% 35%
1% 2%
2%
All Plans <$1mm $1mm-$5mm
l Yes, broad scope5
l Yes, limited scope6
l No
l Unsure/Don't know
22% 21%
22%
31% 23% 31%
38% 40% 37%
9% 17% 11%
5 The third party has broad-scope acceptance of the administrator role, including to
be named as the plan administrator in the plan document. 6
limited-scope acceptance of some (vs. all) of the functions of the plan administrator;
responsibility for actions outside of this scope is retained by plan officials.
The third party has only
l <3%
l 3%
l >3% - 5%
l >5%
All Plans
<$1mm
$1mm-$5mm
All Plans <$1mm $1mm-$5mm
11% 20% 12%
39% 45% 42%
24% 20% 20%
26% 16% 27%
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