Impact of the 2020 Market Crisis on Retirement Income Adequacy—and How Can Employers Help Tuesday, April 14, 2020 (1pm - 2pm US/Eastern)

In the face of the current pandemic, market volatility has reached astonishing levels. But we’ve been through other market crises, and can use those experiences to model how defined contribution plan sponsors might react in terms of plan changes, and how participants might react as well in terms of changes to their accounts. Using EBRI’s Retirement Security Projection Model and based on the EBRI/ICI database of 27 million 401(k) participants’ accounts, EBRI Director of Research Jack VanDerhei explores how market volatility and DC participant and plan sponsor reactions could impact workers’ long-term retirement income adequacy.