Steve Utkus is the head of retirement research at Vanguard. Though we have never met personally, we have been fortunate enough to appear alongside Steve in articles, including this article about BrightScope that appeared in BusinessWeek. His comments in the press are generally wise and insightful which makes sense given his 25+ years of industry [...]
BrightScope is pleased to announce our partnership with Target Date Analytics and the launch of the BrightScope On Target IndexTM. We encourage you to read today’s Press Release and related coverage:
Press Release
Investment News – BrightScope Launches Target Date Benchmarking Tool
Associated Press – BrightScope, Target Date Analytics form new index
Fund Action – BrightScope, Target Date Analytics, [...]
The interest in target date funds is still red hot even several months removed from the first round of hearings held by the DOL/SEC. BrightScope has done its best to provide data and research support to those interested in studying target date funds. Earlier today BrightScope CEO Mike Alfred appeared on CNBC alongside Michael Smith [...]
BrightScope was recently at a conference held by Charlie Epstein, the 401k Coach, in Tabernash Colorado. One of our fellow speakers at the conference was ERISA attorney Marcia Wagner. Marcia is a well-respected ERISA attorney who has a great understanding of where the 401k marketplace is going and what prudent fiduciaries need to do to [...]
Here are some of the things that BrightScope is reading:
The House Education and Labor Committee is marking up H.R.2989 this morning. The 401(k) Fair Disclosure and Pension Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2989) is new legislation that combines provisions from the recently approved fee disclosure and investment advice bills (H.R. 1984 and H.R. 1988). The [...]
Many in Washington are excited about Obama’s new Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, and it is easy to see why. This 34 year old technologist has a unique approach to technology in government:
On Moving to the cloud: “The cloud will do for government what the Internet did in the’ 90s. . . It’s a fundamental [...]
We are all set up and ready to go at LABC. We brought a large screen monitor to showcase the site.
