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Benefits Of A Quality Retirement Plan

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A quality retirement plan can help companies retain top talent and attract highly skilled new employees to offset the talent loss that comes with an aging workforce.

According to Scott Boyd, SVP, National Platform Distribution and Relationships and head of Healthcare Solutions for Prudential Retirement, in Hartford, Connecticut. Plan sponsors and their providers or advisors when discussing retirement plan design tend to have conversations about plan costs instead, they should consider the more implicit costs of employees not being able to retire.

Boyd tells Plansponsor that it costs employers an estimated $8,500 per year per person and year due to increased health care and benefits costs and lost productivity. In addition, a lack of mobility for middle managers may cause them to leave for competitors which could cost anywhere from 100 percent to 300 percent in salary to replace them. “The implicit costs can be bigger than what plan sponsors spend on their retirement plans,” Boyd says.

Prudential trademarked a service it now offers calls DC Optimization. This new product is a process that now provides plan sponsors with information from defined contribution (DC) actuaries to help them design an efficient retirement plan that supports their organizations ' business objectives. Whether that be containing overall business costs, increasing employee participation in a retirement plan or attracting and retaining the right talent.

Boyd explains that the first step is to do a

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