BrightScope

BrightScope BrightScope is a financial information company that brings transparency to 401k plans, mutual funds, and financial advisors through independent research.

BrightScope is a financial information company that brings transparency to the financial services marketplace through independent research and analysis. Delivered through intuitive online tools, BrightScope data drives better decision-making for individual investors, corporate plan sponsors, asset managers, broker-dealers, and financial advisors. Information on more than 700,000 financial advisors

and nearly 33,000 active advisory firms, as well as ratings for nearly 50,000 retirement plans and analysis on nearly 30,000 fund share classes, are available for free at www.brightscope.com.

Fund fees are falling, according to a 2015 survey by the 401(k) rating firm BrightScope and the Investment Company Insti...
03/15/2016

Fund fees are falling, according to a 2015 survey by the 401(k) rating firm BrightScope and the Investment Company Institute trade association. From 2009 to 2013, 401(k) stock funds’ average expense ratio—the percentage of assets each year that go to the manager, not you—fell to 0.54%, down from 0.64% in 2009.

BrightScope featured in Money Magazine.

How to turn your tax-deferred savings into the secure and prosperous retirement you're looking for.

02/10/2016

We are pleased to announce the addition of Rick Niedt to our management team.

BrightScope , a provider of software, analytics, and data to the world's leading financial institutions, today announced that Rick Niedt has joined the company as EVP of Enterprise Product, reporting to ...

12/15/2015

BrightScope's Year-End Top 30 Ratings list once again highlights how companies continue to offer increasingly outstanding plans to help employees retire with dignity.

Today BrightScope is pleased to announce the Top 30 401k Plans of 2015. BrightScope’s Top 30 list comprises large 401k plans with high overall quality, as measured by the BrightScope Rating. The BrightScope Rating measures…

Utilize tools such as www.brightscope.com to verify the quality, including cost, of your plan. If your plan is rated poo...
11/23/2015

Utilize tools such as www.brightscope.com to verify the quality, including cost, of your plan. If your plan is rated poorly, consider only saving up to the amount of your 401(k) contribution that your company matches.

BrightScope featured in USA TODAY.

The state of Americans' retirement preparation is shocking. Why is this, and what can people do about it?

In most respects, Boeing Company's retirement offering is a great model of how to run a large retirement plan. This back...
11/12/2015

In most respects, Boeing Company's retirement offering is a great model of how to run a large retirement plan. This backdrop, however, did not prevent Boeing from recently settling its 401(k) fee class action lawsuit (2016) for $57 million.

Read our in-depth analysis to learn more.

Participants in Boeing’s 401(k) plan are beneficiaries of a participant-friendly design with immediate access, automatic enrollment, immediate vesting of company matching contributions, and a simple and diversified investment menu of low-cost collect

Employees of small businesses are particularly vulnerable. While smaller 401(k) plans typically cost more to run, partly...
11/09/2015

Employees of small businesses are particularly vulnerable. While smaller 401(k) plans typically cost more to run, partly because they don’t have economies of scale, a recent report from 401(k) researcher BrightScope expressed “shock” at just how much more expensive smaller plans can be.

Expenses could be putting a bigger dent in your 401(k) savings than you realize.

IBM's 401k Plus Plan is the largest private defined contribution plan in the country, and it continues to be regarded as...
10/14/2015

IBM's 401k Plus Plan is the largest private defined contribution plan in the country, and it continues to be regarded as one of the best. Read our in-depth analysis to find out why.

IBM sponsors the largest private defined contribution plan in the United States, which is widely regarded as excellent. Its DC plan features a matching contribution, an automatic company contribution, and immediate vesting. BrightScope rates IBM’s plan near the top of its peer group, and in 20…

Google's 401(k) rating has improved every year since 2010. Take a look at our in-depth analysis to see what it takes to...
09/04/2015

Google's 401(k) rating has improved every year since 2010. Take a look at our in-depth analysis to see what it takes to be the 12th best retirement plan in the U.S.

Google sponsors one of the top performing 401k plans in the BrightScope database over the last few years. In fact, Google is ranked 12th in BrightScope’s 2014 Top Plans List (over $1 billion) for the 2nd consecutive year. While its position in the rankings has not changed, Google’s plan…

Steven Stanganelli walks us through his top recommended investments for new parents.
09/02/2015

Steven Stanganelli walks us through his top recommended investments for new parents.

Depending on your experience and what you want to accomplish, I strongly suggest a Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA) or Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) accounts. These are probably the best vehicles...

Whether or not you went to an Ivy League school like Harvard, you sure can invest like you did. Steven Stanganelli expl...
09/02/2015

Whether or not you went to an Ivy League school like Harvard, you sure can invest like you did. Steven Stanganelli explains how on Insights...

Got enough money for retirement? Do you know how you’ll create your retirement paycheck? How do you turn that 401(k) or IRA into a sustainable stream of income? Now’s the time to go back to school...

With job changes, household moves, and failing companies it might be easier than you think to lose track of an asset. B...
09/01/2015

With job changes, household moves, and failing companies it might be easier than you think to lose track of an asset. Brian Kuhn gives us ten options to consider if you find out there’s an asset you feel is rightfully yours.

Losing money to the investment markets is frustrating. Losing money by not knowing where funds are that you or a family member saved in a 401(k) plan has to be corrected. Savings are hard enough...

Our analysts just conducted an in-depth analysis of Procter & Gamble's two retirement plan options. Every P&G employee s...
08/27/2015

Our analysts just conducted an in-depth analysis of Procter & Gamble's two retirement plan options. Every P&G employee should read our latest 401(k) report:

  Procter & Gamble (P&G) offers 3 different retirement plans; a 401k, an ESOP and a frozen defined benefit plan. The defined benefit plan is no longer available to new employees, and as such will be largely excluded from our analysis. As a standalone, the $3B P&G Savings Plan is a b…

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