The Plan Sponsor Council of America has added a mobile appthat provides access to current PSCA knowledge resources forindustry professionals, including plan sponsors, managers,fiduciaries and participants.

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The app, called the PSCA Mobile Knowledge Center, is availablefree for all mobile devices at psca-mobile.org. It allows users toaccess a range of information and other resources about qualifiedand nonqualified plans.

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In addition to a sampling of audio podcasts covering plandesign, administration, investments, compliance, education andcommunication and other general information, the app provides userswith the means to sample the most current PSCA survey research orarticles from DC Insights, PSCA's quarterly publication,as well as from additional publications.

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Details about upcoming PSCA events are available via the app, asis overview information about PSCA and PSCA membership and PSCAcontact information.

Interested sponsors can access, and add the app's shortcut totheir phones, at the website. Content will be added as it becomesavailable to keep users up to date on the latest industry data.

The PSCA is not alone in turning to technology to help plansponsors and plan participants. Many retirement plan providers aswell as financial industry third parties are creating apps thathelp motivate saving in many ways, from offering insights intofinancial behavior to providing scenarios for imagining one'sfuture retirement situation to making retirement saving a game.

No less than the Senate Special Committee on Aging has examinedthe use of technology to help in retirement saving, saying beforeits June 2016 hearing that “many new apps and programs have thepotential to leverage behavioral economics to steer people todesired savings outcomes and help to improve their financialliteracy. By both educating individuals and encouraging them tomake better choices with their money, the financial technologysector has the potential to continue increasing Americans'engagement with retirement accounts in new ways.”