NEPC’s 2022 DB Flash Poll findings were featured in a recent article from the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) to discuss risks plan sponsors perceive and anticipate. View the article on ASPPA’s site here.
These are bracing times for retirement savers, and two recent reports offer a window into tensions savers feel and risks plan sponsors perceive and anticipate.
Economic uncertainty can breed slower progress in saving for retirement or even regression, LIMRA suggests. Even before the current economic conditions, they say, nearly 40% of those nearing retirement were very concerned that they would outlive their retirement savings.
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“The investment consulting firm NEPC buttresses the current apprehension. In a November 2022 poll of corporations and non-profits, they report that the ability of the Federal Reserve to manage inflation was the top choice of what the biggest risks are to the markets in the next 12 months. Rising interest rates came in second.
Further, NEPC says that none of the respondents that had frozen their defined benefit plan said that they were going to unfreeze it or that they had even thought about doing so.”