Advisor Sales Strategies

The world's largest asset management firm has partnered with Great Gray to provide a TDF to serve as default investments for most 401(k) plans that automatically enroll workers, following a similar announcement from State Street, which announced a new target date fund in April.

Plan sponsors must benchmark their plan selection funds yearly and replace those underperforming funds, recommends Abernathy Daley 401k Consultants, which assessed performance data from over 58,000 401(k) plans.

As Empower's new program paves the way for private market investments and BlackRock's CEO calls for more of these assets in 401(k)s, the SEC said it will explore this new investment opportunity, as "there may be risks, as well as benefits, for retirement savers."

Larry Fink, CEO of the world's largest asset management firm, supports the $1,000 "Trump Accounts," a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act for the first time establishes federal guardrails for stablecoin, which are digital assets pegged to the U.S. dollar designed to maintain a stable value that would be under regulatory supervision.

Weeks after the Department of Labor rescinded its crypto guidance warning for 401(k) plans, four Senators sent a letter to Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, urging her to reinstate that guidance "to ensure retirement security for millions of hardworking Americans."