Former US senator and best-selling author Bill Bradley talks about the challenges facing Americans planning for retirement and underscores how Dimensional's Managed DC can play a helpful role.

Dimensional Resident Scientist Robert C. Merton, the DC conference's keynote speaker, outlines how and why Dimensional's Managed DC solution represents a revolutionary advance in the DC market.

Tim Kohn, head of Defined Contribution at Dimensional, talks to three industry experts—David Booth, Bill Bradley, and Nobel laureate Robert C. Merton—about Dimensional's unique research-driven approach to next generation retirement solutions.

Dimensional Retirement's Robert C. Merton's recent keynote speech at the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) March 10, 2011 Investment Conference in London.

Professor Robert Merton, presenting at a Pensions & Investments Defined Contribution Conference, details the challenges facing the retirement industry today and outlines a number of opportunities for DC providers to offer creative solutions.

Professor Robert Merton presents design requirements for a next-generation retirement solution. David Deming describes Dimensional Managed DC.

Younger participants are not only exposed to financial market risk as far as their own accruals are concerned, but also bear (at least some of) the risk of the older participants. Their risk will get bigger as the plans get more underfunded. As a consequence, they may end up with lower benefits than they are currently expecting. Collective DC plans are also failing to adequately inform participants about their risk exposure...

There are many advice offerings for DC plans. Austin has created a matrix that reflects the current landscape, with the "do-it-yourself" vs. "do-it-for-me" models on the x axis and "generic" vs. "individualized" on the y axis. A majority of plans offer investment advice through a modeling or asset allocation tool. Target date or lifecycle funds provide participants convenient execution but, aside from age, are not customized to their specific situation...