J.P. Morgan serves a wide range of defined contribution plan sponsors and their advisors who have come to rely on our investment and record keeping prowess, as well as our thought-provoking market and industry insight to help shape their retirement plan strategies.

We have established a reputation for delivering innovative yet practical retirement and investment solutions to help optimize participant retirement outcomes.

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J.P. Morgan's Defined Contribution Investment Solutions Capabilities (pdf)
This brochure highlights emerging DC trends and opportunities facing plan sponsors and their advisors. Learn more about J.P. Morgan’s tools and solutions in a best practices framework that allows you to help strengthen DC plans and improve participant outcomes.

Questions
For further information, contact your J.P. Morgan representative or email jpmam.info@jpmorgan.com

 

Improving target date fund adoption in DC plans

Fiduciary Implications: Using re-enrollment to improve target date fund adoption

Whether adding target date funds to your DC plan, or just changing investment providers, this white paper provides valuable insight on the strategies plan sponsors can consider and the fiduciary implications of their decisions.

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Retirement insights

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Executive Summary - Ready! Fire! Aim? 2012
First released in 2007 and recently updated with new findings, J.P. Morgan's Ready! Fire! Aim? series examines how effective various target date strategies may be at helping 401(k) participants meet their retirement funding needs.
 
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Ready! Fire! Aim? 2012 (pdf)
How some target date fund designs continue to miss the mark on providing retirement security to those who need it most
 
Retirement at the crossroads
Retirement at the crossroads (pdf)
J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services CEO, David Musto, discusses how four major trends: heightened market volatility, an aging U.S. population, increased regulatory scrutiny and the continued shift to self-directed retirement assets are converging to drive rapid transformation in the DC industry.
 
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Focus your aim (pdf)
Innovating the defined contribution core menu to help increase the odds of participant success.
 
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Penny wise, pound foolish (pdf)
A combination of active and passive strategies can provide potentially better diversification benefits and increase participant outcomes compared to a purely passive approach.
 
Guide to Retirement
Guide to Retirement
A valuable source of information on retirement topics illustrated with charts and graphs.
 
Ready Fire Aim 2009 For Defaulted Participants
Ready! Fire! Aim? For Defaulted Participants (pdf)
Our research finds notable differences between our observations for the general participant population and participants who were defaulted into a target date strategy through a plan's QDIA.
 
 
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The Retirement Inflation Threat (pdf)
Three things to know when addressing inflation risk in defined contribution plans
 
Special update DOL issues final changes to fee disclosure rules
Special update: DOL issues final changes to fee disclosure rules
On Thursday February 2, 2012, the Department of Labor published the final regulation under ERISA section 408(b)(2).
 


In the news

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Expert insights

 

Donn Hess, head of product strategy at J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services, discusses how persona-driven communications can increase participant engagement.

Michael Falcon , head of Retirement for J.P. Morgan Asset Management, discusses how defined contribution decision makers at companies can navigate the changes that are rapidly advancing in the retirement landscape.

A discussion of four major trends that are transforming the defined contribution industry

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A discussion of four major trends that are transforming the defined contribution industry.

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Industry events

P&I East Coast Defined Contribution Conference
March 10-12, 2013
Miami, FL

NAPA/ASPPA 401(k) Sales Summit
March 3-5, 2013
Las Vegas, NV

Institutional Investor Annual Defined Contribution Forum
April 23-24, 2013
Miami, FL

 


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