When most advisers transitioned to fully remote offices in spring 2020, few imagined they’d still be working on how (and whether) to bring staff back two years later.
Participant Insights: Misperceptions About 401(k) Plans Abound Two of the most prevalent misunderstandings that keep workers from signing up that it is too complicated, and that retirement is too far off to care can be stamped out through automatic features, advisers say.
Retirement plan sponsors have to conquer a great number of fiduciary and plan design basics when setting up a plan, but they might not think about the many misconceptions that participants have about retirement plans and retirement saving which could be an impediment.
Two of the biggest misconceptions that keep workers from participating in retirement plans are that they are too complicated and that the worker is too young to care about a milestone decades down the road.