Deloitte Teams Up With a Tar Heel Ally to RKers
The 401kWire's Selma Khenissi reports on the 6/30/26 press release announcing a strategic relationship between Retirement Clearinghouse and Deloitte Consulting, providing quotes from RCH Chairman Bob Johnson, as well as Jason Salzetti, CEO and Chair at Deloitte Consulting LLP. Khenissi also mentions RCH's role in "powering the Portability Services Network."
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7 Reasons Why Plan Sponsors Should Adopt Auto Portability
As a guest author for the Plan Sponsor Council of America (PSCA), Steve Holman, SVP of PSN Strategy and Development, makes a compelling case for plan sponsor adoption of auto portability, as delivered by the Portability Services Network. Holman identifies four key issues that auto portability addresses, including high workforce mobility, reducing plan leakage, lowering administrative burdens, and curbing growth in small, inactive accounts -- while citing seven solid reasons why the choice to adopt auto portability adoption is in plan sponsors' best interests.
Shoring up retirement readiness will renew the American Dream
Writing in Employee Benefit News, RCH & PSN CEO Spencer Williams links America's 250th birthday celebration with the American Dream and achieving a financially secure retirement -- emphasizing the importance of protecting small-balance retirement savings when workers change jobs. As Williams observes: "making money is only half the battle to a secure retirement – saving money is the other half" -- and appeals to the retirement industry to "renew our commitment to helping Americans preserve their retirement savings, in order to increase the income they can enjoy after retiring."
America250: How the Retirement Services Industry can Make Good on the Promise in the Declaration of Independence
Linking America's 250th birthday celebration, the American Dream and achieving a financially secure retirement, RCH and PSN CEO Spencer Williams emphasizes the importance of protecting small-balance retirement savings when workers change jobs. As Williams observes: "making money is only half the battle to a secure retirement – saving money is the other half" -- and appeals to the retirement industry to "renew our commitment to helping Americans preserve their retirement savings, in order to increase the income they can enjoy after retiring."
The Plan Sponsor Case for Auto Portability
Writing in the RCH Consolidation Corner blog, Steve Holman, SVP of PSN Strategy and Development, makes a compelling case for plan sponsor adoption of auto portability, as delivered by the Portability Services Network. Holman identifies four key issues that auto portability addresses, including high workforce mobility, reducing plan leakage, lowering administrative burdens, and curbing growth in small, inactive accounts -- while citing seven solid reasons why the choice to adopt auto portability adoption is in plan sponsors' best interests.
Retirement Savings Portability: An Idea Whose Time Has (Finally) Come
Writing in 401k Specialist, RCH's Tom Hawkins takes stock of five recent, broad-based developments that, taken together, make a compelling case that full retirement savings portability is getting closer to becoming a reality. Key developments Hawkins describes include: 1) auto portability and the rise of the Portability Services Network, 2) key government retirement savings initiatives, 3) potential provisions of SECURE 3.0, 4) an increased focus on “forgotten” accounts and 5) expanding the portability of Roth balances.
Larger 401(k) Plans Embrace Auto Portability as Due Diligence Drives Confidence
Since late 2023, when auto portability – as delivered via the Portability Services Network (PSN) – became operational, the new plan feature has been steadily working its way from an innovative concept into a core best practice for addressing the chronic problem of retirement plan cashout leakage. What’s becoming increasingly clear is that larger 401(k) plans are now joining the movement in meaningful numbers. That shift represents an important inflection point: one where cautious, scale‑focused plan sponsors are completing their due diligence and becoming confident that auto portability delivers real, measurable value to participants without introducing unnecessary risk.
PSCA National Kicks Off with a Look Inside Washington
Reporting on Day 1 of the 2026 PSCA National Conference, ARA Chief Content Officer John Sullivan recaps the action, which included a roundup of the latest retirement policy developments. Led by PSCA Executive Director Will Hansen, the session addressed key legislative initiatives that should be top-of-mind for plan sponsors. Hansen urged plan sponsors to have four takeaways, which included the confirmation of their recordkeeper's ability to accept Saver's Match contributions, as well as the need to evaluate auto portability -- a "hot topic" that Hansen believes could eventually become a mandate, and "would reduce leakage, missing participants, and the fraud surface area created by mailed checks."
