Retirement Plan Participant Experience Benchmark

The Experience Benchmarks evaluate the web and mobile platforms of 18 leading retirement platforms using a rigorous framework that covers the full participant digital experience. The assessments reveal how retirement providers’ digital experiences rank in the competitive landscape overall and across various categories of evaluation.
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See the Whole Landscape. Know Where You Stand.

Today’s organizations face rapidly evolving expectations, internal biases, and limited visibility into competitor experiences—it’s hard to improve your digital platforms. Meanwhile your competitors are building game-changing features behind login walls while you’re analyzing their marketing sites.

Experience Benchmarks show you where you lead, where you lag, and where to invest next. Turn competitive insights into actionable CX priorities with clear visibility into the trends shaping customer expectations in your industry.

Deep Dives Into all Areas of the Digital Experience

Our website and mobile benchmarking frameworks each consist of a comprehensive set of categories, subcategories and attributes covering the full digital experience. These include:

  • Account Information
  • Design & Navigation
  • Planning & Research
  • Profile & Settings
  • Support
  • Transactions

Experience Benchmark Competitor Set

  • Alight Solutions
  • American Funds PlanPremier
  • American Funds RecordkeeperDirect
  • Charles Schwab
  • Corebridge Financial
  • Empower
  • Equitable
  • Fidelity
  • Lincoln Financial Group
  • Merrill
  • Nationwide
  • Principal
  • T. Rowe Price
  • TIAA
  • Transamerica Retirement Solutions
  • TruStage
  • Vanguard
  • Voya Financial

Retirement Plan Participant Experience Benchmark Components

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Importance Weightings

We conduct an annual survey of over 2,000 plan participants to understand their digital preferences and behaviors. Survey results are used to assign importance weightings to all aspects of the Experience Benchmark frameworks.

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Benchmarking Data

Firms receive a rank versus their competitors (from 1 to 18) and score (from 1 to 100) for their overall platform and for every category in the framework. The data shows clients their relative strengths and weaknesses versus competitors.

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User Research

We perform expert reviews of key digital journeys that clients typically perform on their retirement websites and mobile apps (e.g., update contribution rate, review performance data). These reviews impact firms’ scores in most assessment categories.

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Best Practice Learnings

We highlight industry best practices within each category of assessment, offering concrete examples and screenshots. Clients can use these learnings for inspiration as they build their digital roadmaps.

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