When it comes to defined contribution plans, every plan sponsor faces the challenge of balancing immediate needs with their long-term strategic objectives. BlackRock’s technology offers plan diagnostics and connects the decisions made today with the outcomes participants may experience tomorrow.
Strategic plan design
Sharpen plan design with BlackRock
At BlackRock, our plan design experts leverage proprietary analytical tools to sift through your participant-level data to measure your plan's investment options against your objectives and assess your participants' retirement readiness. We identify key data and deliver highly visual findings to give plan sponsors insight into their plan’s investment menu, design and estimated income replacement.
Innovative technology
Our Future in Focus® tool offers data-driven analysis to test and support strategic plan design changes as you seek to improve participant outcomes.
Plan design analysis
We tailor our proprietary analysis to the specifics of your plan and participant demographics to help you build better retirement security for your participants.
Participant focus
Our resources can help plan sponsors engage participants to and through retirement to help achieve better outcomes and holistic financial well-being.
Automating decumulation
AutoRetire™ solutions aim to build on the success of plan design features that have helped millions accumulate savings by applying the principle of automation to decumulation.
Future in Focus® tool
Learn how BlackRock’s Future in Focus tool can provide data-driven insights to help support your plan design considerations:
- Increase participation or savings rates
- Drive retirement readiness
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the QDIA
- Explore the impact of auto-enrollment and auto-escalation
- Assess the impact of fees over time
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Our interactive tool can help you see where a plan stands and explore potential changes in a matter of minutes—all with just a few straightforward inputs.
Participant engagement
Leverage modern, compelling participant communication resources that are designed to engage and educate participants to help them get the most of their retirement plan.
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Emergency savings = better retirement?
A financial emergency can undermine retirement savings. Helping participants to be more financially secure today can translate into more long-term savings.
Unintended consequences of plan design
Identify the most impactful changes a plan can make by following real-world plan design case studies that illustrate the type of actionable insights BlackRock can help you uncover.
Misconceptions about company stock
Some plan sponsors still allow participants to invest in company stock through their retirement plans, but at what risk?