Starting Small: Retirement Plan Opportunities for Small Business Owners

The number of businesses offering retirement plans to employees is increasing rapidly, representing a compelling opportunity to grow your business.

  

Retirement Income, Part 1: A Work in Progress for Defined Contribution Plans

Explore the evolving landscape of retirement income along with the challenges and innovations that will shape the future of retirement plans.

AI-fueled Boom: Who Benefits?

In a recent investment industry survey, nearly 80% of respondents believed that generative artificial intelligence (AI) would have a transformative effect on the global economy.

“No Preferred Habitat” Investing

Winslow Capital uniquely diversifies their portfolio across three different, yet complementary types of growth companies, which protects it from ever developing a bias that may only perform well in a specific style-driven market.

7 Great Reasons to Put MLAIX on the Menu

Can your large-cap growth incorporate strategies that not only manage risks but also encourage investors to stay invested in all types of markets? With MLAIX on the plan menu, your clients could have a compelling fund to help “smooth out the ride” and potentially reduce volatility.

  

Morningstar Reprint: "7 Top-Performing Large-Growth Funds"

Recently, NYLI Winslow Large Cap Growth Fund (MLAIX) was awarded a Bronze Medalist Rating by Morningstar. In addition, MLRSX headlined a list of the 7 Top-Performing Large-Growth Funds, with the category’s gains being led by returns from investments in tech stocks during 1Q 2024.

   

Infographic: Investing in an Era of an Aging Population

The number of people over 65 is on track to surpass the youth by the year 2070. Meaning that when it comes to planning for retirement and managing investments, this shift will cause investors to face both challenges and opportunities.

Redefining Retirement Plan Services

Jose Barros, Chief Operating Officer of U.S. Retail Distribution and Head of DCIO Sales for New York Life Investments discusses ways you can help plan sponsors bridge the gap between the needs of plan participants and the benefits they offer in the retirement marketplace, based on research conducted in partnership with AARP.

Perception vs. Reality

New York Life Investments recently commissioned a research project which surveyed plan sponsors, plan providers and plan participants on their level of satisfaction with services provided and their opinion on each other. Our findings provide ample opportunity for retirement advisors to make a positive impact in the participants experience. 

Redefining and Planning Retirement

New York Life Investments worked with valued partners to provide key findings and trends on what retirement means to different demographics and how to calculate the path retirement.

Challenge Conventional Thinking

Join the evolution of retirement planning and watch a fireside chat on how to tailor investment solutions for retirement plans.

   

   

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As of 11/30/24, NYLI Winslow Large Cap Growth Fund’s Class I shares rated four stars overall and four stars for the five- and ten-year periods from among 955 and 751 Large Growth funds, respectively.


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