Dec 15, 2020
You're most likely continuously looking for ways to enhance your retirement plan in a way that's beneficial to employees. But are your improvements effective?
Find out how an analysis can measure how your employees are progressing relative to their retirement goals.
Newport has developed an analysis that measures how plan participants are progressing relative to their retirement goals. By gathering research on what other firms consider adequate savings to meet retirement expenses, we are able to perform an independent analysis on the plan.
We use two lenses for examining a participant "
retirement readiness."
The first, more simplified lens, is the retirement savings multiple. Most investors have read various rules of thumb that help them gauge whether or not they are "on track" with their retirement savings. These benchmarks often come in the form of a retirement savings multiple: For instance, a participant might want to have x times his/her current salary in their retirement savings account. However, that's not always easy to demonstrate.
Newport can work with you to illustrate retirement savings multiples for employees.
Our second lens involves more complex modeling at the participant level. This involves projecting account balances forward to retirement for each participant, and forecasting retirement income produced by the accumulated wealth. We tailor the analysis for each participant and consider factors such as contribution rate, company match, tenure, expected social security income and current balance.
Finally, we calculate the replacement ratio for each participant and aggregate these at the plan level. A replacement ratio, which is projected income / projected salary, represents the income a retiree receives from their savings as a proportion of the salary they earned at retirement. An analysis of replacement ratios can help an employer evaluate the "retirement readiness" of their participants, and consequently, the effectiveness of their plan. The analysis is also helpful in analyzing the impact from changes in company match, auto-increase, and other plan features.
To learn more about how we can help you with “Retirement Readiness Review” contact your Newport representative or contact Newport’s Fiduciary Services at 407-333-2905.
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