Employee meetings
Generic employee investment education
Customized employee investment education
Generic employee communications
Customized employee communications
Compliance and reporting
Consulting services
Toll-free, automated voice-response system
TOLL-FREE NUMBER SERVICES
Account balance
Account transfers
24-hour access
Operators
Foreign language capability
Changes to contribution allocations
Loan request/processing
Performance data
Fund information
Retirement planning assistance
Client service rep available
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Daily valuation
Total defined contribution assets: $8 billion
In-house investment management services are provided through:
*Internally managed mutual funds
*Internally managed separate accounts
*GICs
External investment management services are provided through:
Private label mutual funds
Commingled funds
MassMutual provides services to 2,550 sponsors: 2,050 for bundled services (including in-house investment management) and 500 for investment management only.
It has investment management partnerships with Oppenheimer; Fidelity; T. Rowe Price; and Twentieth Century.
It offers employee education interactive software through public online systems, and plan-level data via a secure private network.
William L. Tindall is client contact.
William M. Mercer Inc.
1166 Ave. of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10036; phone: (212) 345-7000; fax: (212) 345-7423
No. of participants
Total1,000,000
Participants served exclusively1,000,000
SERVICES PROVIDED:
Plan design
Employee meetings
Generic employee investment education
Customized employee investment education
Generic employee communications
Customized employee communications
Compliance and reporting
Consulting services
Toll-free, automated voice-response system
TOLL-FREE NUMBER SERVICES
Account balance
Account transfers
24-hour access
Operators
Foreign language capability
Changes to contribution allocations
Loan request/processing
Performance data
Fund information
Client service rep available
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Daily valuation
External investment management services are provided through:
Private label mutual funds
Commingled funds
Separate accounts
GICs
William M. Mercer Inc. provides services to 600 sponsors.
It has investment management partnerships with AIM; Acorn Funds; American Express; American Funds; AMR; Ariel; Berger; Brinson; Calvert; CAMCO; Chase (Vista); Chicago Title & Trust; Clipper Funds; Columbia Funds; Crabbe Huson; Delaware Funds; Dodge & Cox; Dreyfus; Federated; Fidelity; Flippin Bruce & Porter; Founders; Franklin Templeton; Fred Alger; Fremont Group; G.T. Global; GMO International; Goldman Sachs; IAI; IDEX; IDS; INVESCO; Ivy Funds; J.P. Morgan; Janus; Lazard; Lexington; Lindner; Lord Abbett; Managers Fund; Merrill Lynch; MFS; MAS; Montgomery; Morgan Grenfell; Neuberger & Berman; New England; New USA; New York Life; Nicholas Applegate; Olympic Funds; Oppenheimer; PanAgora; Paxworld; Payden & Rygel; Phoenix; Pilgrim Baxter; PIMCO; Putnam; Regis; Sanford Bernstein; Scudder; SEI; Selected/Venture Advisers; Sequoia; Seven Seas; Standish Ayer; Strong; T. Rowe Price; Twentieth Century; Vanguard; Waddell & Reed; Warburg Pincus; Weiss Peck; Wells Fargo and Westwood.
It offers online access for clients and triple-security voice-response systems through a secure private network.
Jacqueline D. Dienstag is client contact.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner
& Smith Inc.
800 Scudders Mill Road, Plainsboro, N.J. 08536; phone: (609) 282-3010; fax: (609) 282-3014
No. of participants
Total1,400,000
Bundled (inc. in-house asset mgmt.)1,400,000
Participants served exclusively1,400,000
Bundled services1,400,000
SERVICES PROVIDED:
Plan design
Employee meetings
Generic employee investment education
Customized employee investment education
Generic employee communications
Customized employee communications
Compliance and reporting
Toll-free, automated voice-response system
TOLL-FREE NUMBER SERVICES
Account balance
Account transfers
24-hour access
Operators
Foreign language capability
Changes to contribution allocations
Loan request/processing
Performance data
Fund information
Retirement planning assistance
Client service rep available
Modeling
Enrollment/eligibility
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Daily valuation
Total defined contribution assets: $39.3 billion
In-house investment management services are provided through:
*Internally managed mutual funds
*Internally managed commingled funds
*Internally managed separate accounts
*Stable value fund
External investment management services are provided through:
Various third party funds
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. provides services to 6,545 sponsors: 6,500 for bundled services (including in-house investment management); and 45 for investment management only.
Kim Evans is client contact.
MetLife Defined Contribution
Group
1 Madison Ave., Area 2-E, New York, N.Y. 10010; phone: (212) 578-7775; fax: (212) 578-6765
No. of participants
Total290,000
Bundled (inc. in-house asset mgmt.)280,000
Record keeping/administration only10,000
Participants served exclusively290,000
Bundled services280,000
Record-keeping/administration only10,000
SERVICES PROVIDED:
Plan design
Employee meetings
Generic employee investment education
Customized employee investment education
Generic employee communications
Customized employee communications
Compliance and reporting
Consulting services
Toll-free, automated voice-response system
TOLL-FREE NUMBER SERVICES
Account balance
Account transfers
24-hour access
Operators
Foreign language capability
Changes to contribution allocations
Loan request/processing
Performance data
Fund information
Retirement planning assistance
Client service rep available
Enrollments
Educational features
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Daily valuation
Total defined contribution assets: $35 billion
In-house investment management services are provided through:
*Internally managed mutual funds
*Internally managed commingled funds
*Internally managed separate accounts
*GICs
External investment management services are provided through:
Institutional class mutual funds
*MetSelect Alliance
MetLife Defined Contribution Group provides services to 1,538 sponsors: 226 for bundled services (including in-house investment management); 12 for record-keeping and administration only; and 1,300 for investment management only.
It has investment management partnerships with State Street Research; GFM International; Loomis, Sayles; Harris Associates; Reich & Tang; Warburg Pincus; Neuberger & Berman; Founders Funds; Twentieth Century; Janus; and Scudder.
It offers retirement planning education and e-mail service through public online systems; and flexible sponsor reporting and customized information services through a secure private network.
Gary E. Lineberry is client contact.
MFS
500 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 02116; phone: (800) 343-2829, ext. 6809; fax: (617) 954-6685
No. of participants
Total144,400
Bundled (inc. in-house asset mgmt.)74,400
Investment mgmt. only70,000
Participants served exclusively74,400
Bundled services74,400
SERVICES PROVIDED:
Plan design
Employee meetings
Generic employee investment education
Generic employee communications
Compliance and reporting
Consulting services
Toll-free, automated voice-response system
TOLL-FREE NUMBER SERVICES
Account balance
Account transfers
24-hour access
Operators
Changes to contribution allocations
Performance data
Fund information
Client service rep available
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Daily valuation
Total defined contribution assets: $3 billion
In-house investment management services are provided through:
*Internally managed mutual funds
*GICs
MFS provides services to 9,290 sponsors: 1,590 for bundled services (including in-house investment management) and 7,700 for investment management only.
It has a strategic alliance with Hypo Foreign & Colonial Management, Wyatt, Trust Consultants, and Emtay.
Leslie Sabo is client contact.
J.P. Morgan Investment
Management Inc.
522 Fifth Ave. New York, N.Y. 10036; phone: (212) 837-1408; fax: (212) 768-0557
No. of participants
Total1,235,000
Investment mgmt. only1,235,000
Participants served exclusively1,235,000
Investment mgmt. only1,235,000
SERVICES PROVIDED:
Plan design
Employee meetings
Generic employee investment education
Customized employee investment education
Generic employee communications
Customized employee communications
Toll-free, automated voice-response system
TOLL-FREE NUMBER SERVICES
Operators
Foreign language capability
Performance data
