Our Sponsors

2023 Visionary Sponsor

AllianceBernstein (AB) is a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional investors, individuals, and private wealth clients in major world markets. We are one of the largest investment management firms in the world, with more than $680 billion in assets under management as of January 2023. We foster a diverse, connected, collaborative culture that encourages different ways of thinking and differentiated insights. We embrace innovation to address increasingly complex investing challenges. And we pursue responsibility at all levels of the firm—from how we work and act to the solutions we design for clients.

As an innovator in defined contribution (DC), we’re striving to define the future through visionary research and distinctive solutions that provide financial security in retirement. DC plan participants are looking for retirement income security, and workplace retirement plans may be their only savings source. With a decade of experience in delivering guaranteed income without sacrificing participants’ liquidity or growth potential, we’re fully invested in creating better retirement outcomes.

Thought Leadership:

• Lifetime Income Video Series
• As Workforce Sentiments Change, Retirement Income Needs Haven’t

2023 Visionary Sponsor | PRRL Partner

MissionSquare Retirement is dedicated to guiding those who serve our communities toward a secure and confident financial future.  Founded in 1972, MissionSquare Retirement is a mission-based, nonstock, nonprofit, financial services company with approximately $69 billion in assets under management and administration, focused on delivering retirement plans, investment options, and personalized guidance to more than 1.8 million employee accounts (as of January 31, 2023).  For 50 years, our mission has been constant – to help those who serve reach their retirement goals with confidence.

For more information, visit www.missionsq.org, download MissionSquare’s mobile app from the App Store® and Google Play™ or follow MissionSquare on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Thought Leadership:

• Research Report: Examining the Financial Wellbeing of the U.S. Public Service Workforce (Click here for the report summary.)
• State and Local Government Employees: Morale, Public Service Motivation, Financial Concerns, Retention – 2022 Survey Results (Click here for the report summary.)

2023 Visionary Sponsor | PRRL Partner

Voya Financial® helps Americans plan, invest and protect their savings — to get ready to retire better. We serve the financial needs of more than 14 million individual and institutional customers in the United States. Our vision is to be America’s Retirement Company® while being equally committed to conducting business in a way that is socially, environmentally, economically and ethically responsible. We are a Fortune 500 company (NYSE: VOYA) with a clear mission to make a secure financial future possible — one person, one family, one institution at a time.

As the nation’s #1 provider of governmental deferred compensation plans (based on plan assets as of 12/31/21), we work with plan sponsors in states, cities, counties and municipalities of all sizes to provide unique, 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:

• Reducing the Savings Gap
• Voya Perspectives – The future of workplace benefits starts with a connect experience

2023 Premier Sponsor | PRRL Founding Partner

Invesco is a defined contribution partner that delivers investment expertise, innovative thinking, resources, and tools that you need to act with conviction. Invesco helps plan sponsors, financial professionals and consultants make decisions interdependently around four key areas – Investment Menu Design, Plan Design, Participant Engagement, and Plan Governance. As a DC investment partner managing $132 billion in DC assets, our capabilities span virtually all asset classes, styles and regions and backed by the resources of Invesco Ltd., with $1.4 trillion¹ in AUM and more than 8,400 employees worldwide.

Invesco data as of December 31, 2022. Total AUM figure includes all assets under advisement, distributed and overseen by Invesco Ltd.

Thought Leadership:

• Show Me the Income

2023 Premier Sponsor | PRRL Partner

Segal is a leading, independent firm of benefits, compensation and human resources consultants. Headquartered in New York, Segal has more than 1,000 employees throughout the U.S. and Canada. Clients include federal agencies, state and local governments, corporations, non-profit organizations, professional service firms and joint boards of trustees administering pension and health and welfare plans under the Taft-Hartley Act.

For more than 80 years, Segal consultants have developed cutting-edge total reward approaches that provide quality healthcare, secure retirement and competitive compensation programs for public employees. We also help employers and other plan sponsors develop efficient and secure administration systems and procedures. Additionally, we offer insurance brokerage services, award-winning employee communications through Segal Benz and investment solutions through Segal Marco Advisors, Inc.

Thought Leadership:

• Survey of Investment Managers Finds Large Gains in Diversity

2023 Partner Sponsor

Our purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. As the largest DC investment-only provider,* we are solely focused on serving over 80,000 public and private DC plans, reaching more than 40 million participants with high-quality investment solution designed to help people achieve their retirement goals. Today, we continue our history of innovation and thought leadership as we work to pioneer the next generation of retirement solutions, plan design analytics and participant communications.

Our commitment to our clients’ best interests is why BlackRock is trusted to manage more money than any other investment firm in the world, with $8.59 trillion in assets under management.**

* By AUM as reported in the 2022 PLANADVISOR DCIO Survey released in June 2022, with data as of 12/31/21

** BlackRock, December 31, 2022

2023 Partner Sponsor | PRRL Founding Partner

Since 1931, Capital Group, home of the American Funds, has been focused on delivering superior, consistent results for long-term investors using high-conviction portfolios, rigorous research and individual accountability.  As one of the world’s largest asset management families, we serve a wide range of institutional investors, including defined benefit and defined contribution plan sponsors, endowments and foundations, financial institutions, governments, and sovereign wealth funds. Our organization has managed assets for institutional investors since 1968 and serves more than 4,500 institutional clients worldwide.

Capital Group has deep roots in the defined contribution business. Our organization manages retirement assets for many Fortune 1000 companies and government entities, with some relationships extending back more than three decades. We believe in the value of enduring relationships with our clients and are committed to the defined contribution market for the long run.

2023 Partner Sponsor

As the retirement solutions provider of PGIM, PGIM DC Solutions’ goal is to deliver innovative defined contribution solutions founded on market-leading research and capabilities. Our highly-experienced team has a deep understanding of the challenges plan sponsors face and a long history of partnering with clients to build more outcome-focused retirement programs. The team’s expertise spans across plan design and participant engagement, investment best practices, portfolio construction, retirement income, and the regulatory and legislative environment. As of 12/31/2022, PGIM has $160 billion DC assets under management.

2023 Partner Sponsor

For four decades, State Street Global Advisors has served the world’s governments, institutions and financial advisors. With a rigorous, risk-aware approach built on research, analysis and market-tested experience, we build from a breadth of index and active strategies to create cost-effective solutions. And, as pioneers in index, ETF, and ESG investing, we are always inventing new ways to invest. As a result, we have become the world’s fourth-largest asset manager* with US $3.48 trillion† under our care.

*Pensions & Investments Research Center, as of 12/31/21.
†This figure is presented as of December 31, 2022 and includes approximately $58.60 billion USD of 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 Global Advisors are affiliated. Please note all AUM is unaudited.