Retirement Trends

Financial Chairman and CEO Rodney O. Martin Jr. will take over from Maliz Beams, who was most recently the CEO of the Voyas retirement solutions business.

Miss any of the action at the Center for Due Diligence conference in San Antonio, Texas? Here are some of the big headlines.

The Global Pension Index classifies the U.S. system as having some good features, but also major risks.

Funding shortfalls declined by $45 billion in 2013, and the aggregate funding percentage increased from 71 percent in 2012 to 81 percent in 2013.

The news is further indication that recordkeepers and service providers are seeing the largely underserved small-plan market as essential to growth.

The median fees on plans for 2014 were .52 percent, or 52 cents paid for every $100 of plan assets.