Plan sponsors that focus on health and wealth are often more likely to implement other benefits that they would not have been considered before, including life insurance, supplemental health benefits, and executive and retiree medical and retirement benefits, Caldwell added.
Newcomer Convexitas added an options strategy. John Hancock Investment Management, Nuveen Asset Management, and ZEGA Investments also expanded their current offerings to respectively include all cap core, small cap core, international value ADR, and a tactical ETF options strategies.
"Since we began generating this data, Insights related to IRA contributions and underperforming products have consistently ranked among the most utilized—highlighting ongoing advisor focus on retirement planning and identifying underperforming holdings within client portfolios."