Our Sponsors

Visionary Sponsor

Corebridge is a leading retirement plan provider for K-12 schools, government, healthcare, higher education, and other not-for-profit institutions, with a long and proven track record of serving our clients for more than 60 years. Through our strong partnerships with plan sponsors and consultants, a dedicated financial professional network, and client-driven innovation, we make retirement planning easy and accessible for all. We believe in helping people take actions that turn their financial dreams into realities.

Thought Leadership:

• Corebridge capabilities overview
• The role of financial professionals in improving employee financial well-being

Visionary Sponsor

At Empower, our vision is to transform financial lives through advice, people, and technology. As one of the largest providers of government retirement plans, we’re committed to serving those who keep our communities across the nation moving forward. We help drive outcomes by partnering with the public sector including states, counties, cities, public safety, public utilities, transportation, water authorities, schools, hospitals and more. We are helping more than 5K government plans with over 4 million public employees achieve the future they imagine.

We help motivate government workers to achieve incremental wins by providing them with a full financial picture through the Empower Personal Dashboard™, fiduciary advice for all to help people make more informed decisions and a personalized plan and messaging to drive clear next steps.

With a mission to empower financial freedom for all, Empower proudly serves over 89,000 organizations and more than 19 million individuals with $2 trillion in assets under administration. We’re continuing to grow — and innovate — every day.

Thought Leadership:

• Empowering your workforce: Integrating mental health and financial
• Empowering America’s Financial Journey 2025 Government
  

Visionary Sponsor

Since its founding in 1972, MissionSquare has remained committed to delivering on its mission to help all individuals and their families build financial security. As a mission-based financial services company, our commitment to delivering outstanding service, effortless technology, and quality investments sets us apart.

Visit www.missionsq.org or follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn to stay informed and learn more about our latest offerings and insights.

Thought Leadership:

• Artificial Intelligence in the Public Workforce: An In-Depth Study on Employee Perspectives and Retirement Planning Expectations | MissionSquare Research Institute
• 2025 State and Local Workforce Survey Results | MissionSquare Research Institute

Visionary Sponsor | PRRL Founding Partner

Nationwide, a US-based Fortune 100 company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, is one of the largest and strongest diversified financial services and insurance organizations in the United States. Nationwide administers over 32,000 retirement plans, protecting nearly $200 billion in participant assets, and helping secure financial futures for over 2.7 million participants. Nationwide services the highest volume of Governmental 457 plans¹ and has demonstrated significant growth in corporate 401(k) and not-for-profit 403(b) markets.  With close to 50 years in the Retirement Solutions business, we always focused on what matters most – the outcomes of our participants. This commitment is reflected in our award-winning² service we provide and our 1:1 tailored guidance, regardless of age or account balance. Our array of digital tools and solutions help each participant take their unique next best action to prepare for and live-in retirement.

¹PLANSPONSOR’s 2023 Recordkeeping Survey 
²DALBAR Plan Participant Service Award (2014-2024)

Thought Leadership:

• Protected retirement income solutions – What plan sponsors need to know
• Retirement reality check

Visionary Sponsor

T. Rowe Price is an asset management firm focused on delivering global investment management excellence and retirement services. We are a leader in the defined contribution business bringing over 40 years of experience in the DC industry to assist plan sponsors and participants.

We offer a full range of investment capabilities designed to meet the needs of retirement plan participants, and we provide an array of commingled funds, separate account management, retirement recordkeeping, and related services for retirement plan sponsors.  Our intellectual rigor helps us seek the best ideas for our clients, our integrity ensures that we always put their interests first, and our stability lets us stay focused on their goals as we pursue better investment outcomes.

The principle on which Thomas Rowe Price, Jr., founded the firm in 1937—that his company’s success should follow from the success it achieves for its clients—continues to guide us today. Our disciplined investment approach is rooted in proprietary research carried out by experienced professionals around the globe. To this approach, we bring a deep understanding of client needs and a long-term view that balances risk and reward. And we nurture a culture that encourages collaboration and diverse thinking.

Thought Leadership:

• 2025 Retirement Market Outlook
• Making the Benefit Connection

Visionary Sponsor

Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), is a leading health, wealth and investment company offering products, solutions and technologies that help its 14.7 million individual, workplace and institutional clients become well planned, well invested and well protected. Voya also is purpose-driven and committed to conducting business in a way that is economically, ethically, socially and environmentally responsible. Voya has earned recognition as: one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere; a member of the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index; and a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” on the Disability Equality Index.

As the nation’s #1 provider of governmental deferred compensation plans (based on 2023 PLANSPONSOR Recordkeeping Survey), we work with plan sponsors in cities, counties, states and special districts of all sizes to provide tailored retirement plan solutions as flexible as your employees are diverse. We have a unique combination of scale, size and market position that allows us to deliver plan administration in a cost-effective manner and engage employees to drive positive retirement outcomes.

Thought Leadership:

• Coming soon!

Premier Sponsor

J.P. Morgan Asset Management (“JPMAM”) is a leading asset manager for individuals, advisors, and institutions with over $4.3 trillion under management (as of December 31, 2025). Our investment professionals around the world and across the asset class spectrum share one common goal: to deliver superior investment capabilities and insights to help our clients, and the communities they serve, achieve their most important financial objectives.

Everyone’s path to retirement looks different. At J.P. Morgan Asset Management, we believe the foundation for a successful retirement holds true for all: know people, know markets. We have a deep understanding of how people save and spend, an advantage from being part of America’s largest bank and a retirement provider to millions. We combine our understanding of human behavior with market intelligence, managing risk at every step of our investment process. This is how we seek to deliver smart retirement strategies designed to achieve long-term goals. At JPMAM, we turn complexity into clarity to help everyone reach the retirement they’ve earned.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management is the marketing name for the asset management business of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its affiliates worldwide. Please visit our website for more information: //jpmorgan.com/institutional

Source: J.P. Morgan Asset Management; as of December 31, 2025

Thought Leadership:

• Retirement by the Numbers

Partner Sponsor

Apollo is a leading provider of alternative asset management and retirement solutions. We help build and finance stronger businesses through innovative capital solutions that can generate excess risk-adjusted returns and retirement income. We invest alongside our clients and take a disciplined, responsible approach to drive positive outcomes.

Apollo Asset Management invests across Credit, Equity and Real Assets ecosystems in a wide range of asset classes and geographies, with a significant focus on the private investment grade and fixed income markets.

Our retirement services business, Athene, provides a suite of retirement savings products to help clients achieve financial security.

Partner Sponsor

Lincoln Financial Group provides advice and solutions that help people take charge of their financial lives with confidence and optimism. Today, more than 16 million customers trust our retirement, insurance and wealth protection expertise to help address their lifestyle, savings and income goals, and guard against long-term care expenses. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Lincoln Financial Group is the marketing name for Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE:LNC) and its affiliates. The company had $290 billion in end-of-period account values as of September 30, 2023. Lincoln Financial Group is a committed corporate citizen included on major sustainability indices including the Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America and ranks among Newsweek’s Most Responsible Companies. With a long and rich legacy of acting ethically, telling the truth and speaking up for what is right, Lincoln was recognized as one of Ethisphere’s 2022 World’s Most Ethical Companies®. Learn more at: www.LincolnFinancial.com Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Partner Sponsor

At State Street Investment Management, we have been helping create better outcomes for institutions, financial intermediaries, and investors for nearly half a century. Starting with our early innovations in indexing and ETFs, our rigorous approach continues to be driven by market-tested expertise and a relentless commitment to those we serve. With over $5 trillion in assets managed*, clients in over 60 countries, and a global network of strategic partners, we use our scale to deliver a comprehensive and cost-effective suite of investment solutions that help investors get wherever they want to go.

*This figure is presented as of December 31, 2025 and includes ETF AUM of $1,950.80 billion USD of which approximately $173.02 billion USD in gold assets with respect to SPDR products for which State Street Global Advisors Funds Distributors, LLC (SSGA FD) acts solely as the marketing agent. SSGA FD and State Street Investment Management are affiliated. Please note all AUM is unaudited.