Reader Quick Poll: Are Participants Reacting to the Market Volatility?

Over the past several days, worldwide investment markets have been buffeted by events that most pundits seem to feel shouldn’t be buffeting our markets – and yet they are.

Are participants in the plans you work with reacting?

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* 1. How long have you been working with workplace retirement plans?

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* 2. Have you seen/heard a significant uptick in participant calls/concerns over the past week?

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* 3. Have you seen/heard a significant uptick in plan sponsor calls/concerns over the past week?

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* 4. How do those reaction(s) (or lack thereof) compare with the 2008 financial crisis?

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* 5. Any trends you are able to discern in the participants who are expressing concern in terms of demographics, location, gender, etc.?

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* 6. What are you/your firm telling them?

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* 7. Have YOU made any changes in your personal portfolio allocation?

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* 8. If so, are those changes:

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* 9. Comments on market tumult, helping plan sponsors/committees figure out what to do, talking to participants at times like these, or what you're hearing from fellow advisors?

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* 10. Suggestions for future survey questions?

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