Pensions & Investments announces Eddy Award winners for 2014

CHICAGO, March 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Twenty-six sponsors of defined contribution plans and 19 service providers to those plans won 2014 Eddy Awards for providing best-in-class investment education to defined contribution plan participants.

The awards are sponsored by Pensions & Investments, the international newspaper of money management. Winners of the 20th annual Eddy Awards were announced at P&I's East Coast defined contribution conference in Miami earlier this month.

The Eddy Award winners also are featured in the March 17 issue of Pensions & Investments.

Employers and organizations winning first place for special projects are Churchill Downs, Red Bull, Employee Retirement System of Texas, Beacon Health System and the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 4. Service provider special project first-place winners are MassMutual Retirement Services, which one two; OneAmerica, Great-West Financial, ING and Lincoln Financial Group.

Plan sponsor first-place winners for education in the conversion of DC plans are DENSO Corp., Hennepin Healthcare Systems and Carolinas HealthCare System. First-place service provider winners are Putnam Investments, MassMutual Retirement Services and J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services.

Plan sponsor winning first place for ongoing investment education are PACCAR Inc., Mission Linen Supply Co. and New York State Deferred Compensation Plan. Service provider first-place winners are Vanguard Group, which took first in two ongoing investment education categories, Putnam Investments, Prudential Retirement, GuidedChoice and Mercer.

The plan sponsor first-place winners for retirement readiness are Essentia Health and Cox Enterprises Inc, and the service provider winners are Financial Finesse and ICMA-RC.

Service provider Boulevard R won first place in the mobile apps category, Vanguard won first place in the fee disclosure and education category, and J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services received honorable mention in the automatic re-enrollment category.

The winners are as follows:

Plan sponsor winners

Conversions: Corporate
First place: DENSO Corp., Maryville, Tenn.
Second place: Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc., Addison, Texas
Third place: Harsco Corp., Camp Hill, Pa.

Conversions: Public
First place: Hennepin Healthcare Systems, Minneapolis

Conversions: Not for profit
First place: Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, N.C.

Special projects: Corporate
First place (tie): Churchill Downs Inc., Louisville, Ky.
First place (tie): Red Bull, Santa Monica, Calif.
Second place (tie): MGM Resorts International, Las Vegas
Second place (tie): Plexus Corp., Neenah, Wis.
Third place: Averitt Express Inc., Cookeville, Tenn.

Special projects: Public
Second place: County of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
First place: Employee Retirement System of Texas, Austin, Texas

Special projects: Not for profits
First place: Beacon Health System, South Bend, Ind.
Second place: Daughters of Charity Health System, Pasadena, Calif. 
Third place: Baptist Health South Florida, Coral Gables, Fla.

Special projects: Union 
First place: International Union of Operating Engineers Local 4, Medway, Mass.

Retirement readiness: Corporate
First place: Cox Enterprises Inc., Atlanta
Second place: Rackspace Hosting, Windcrest, Texas

Retirement readiness: Not for profit
First place: Essentia Health, Duluth, Minn.

Ongoing investment education: Corporate, 1,000 or more employees
First place: PACCAR Inc., Bellevue, Wash.
Second place: Kimberly-Clark Corp., Knoxville, Tenn.
Third place: General Motors Co., Detroit

Ongoing investment education: Corporate, fewer than 1,000 employees
First place: Mission Linen Supply Co., Santa Barbara, Calif.

Ongoing investment education: Public
First place: New York State Deferred Compensation Plan, Albany, N.Y.
Second place: Ohio Deferred Compensation, Columbus, Ohio
Third place: Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Olympia, Wash. 

Service provider winners

Conversions: Corporate, more than 5,000 employees
First place: Putnam Investments, Boston

Conversions: Corporate, 5,000 or fewer employees
First place: MassMutual Retirement Services, Springfield, Mass.
Second place: J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services, Overland Park, Kan.

Conversions: Not for profit
First place: J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services, Overland Park, Kan.
Second place: Lincoln Financial Group, Radnor, Pa.

Special projects: Corporate
First place (tie): MassMutual Retirement Services, Springfield, Mass.
First place (tie): OneAmerica, Indianapolis
Second place (tie): Fidelity Investments, Westlake, Texas
Second place (tie): Francis Investment Counsel, Pewaukee, Wis.
Third place (tie): New York Life Retirement Plan Services, Westwood, Mass.
Third place (tie): Fidelity Investments, Smithfield, R.I.

Special projects: Public
First place (tie): Great-West Financial, Greenwood Village, Colo.
First place (tie): ING, Windsor, Conn.

Special projects: Not for profit
First place: Lincoln Financial Group, Radnor, Pa.

Special projects: Generic
First place: MassMutual Retirement Services, Springfield, Mass.
Second place: ICMA-RC, Washington

Transitions
First place: Prudential Retirement, Newark, N.J.

Ongoing investment education: Corporate, more than 5,000 employees
First place: Vanguard, Wayne, Pa.
Second place: GuidedChoice, San Diego

Ongoing investment education: Corporate, 1,000 to 5,000 employees
First place: Vanguard, Wayne, Pa. 

Ongoing investment education: Corporate, fewer than 1,000 employees
First place: Putnam Investments, Boston

Ongoing investment education: Not for profit
First place: Prudential Retirement, Hartford, Conn.

Ongoing investment education: Generic
First place (tie): GuidedChoice, San Diego
First place (tie): Mercer, Norwood, Mass.
Second place: Vanguard, Wayne, Pa. 

Retirement readiness: Corporate
First place: Financial Finesse, El Segundo, Calif.

Retirement readiness: Generic
First place: ICMA-RC, Washington
Second place: BlackRock, New York
Third place: J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services, Westerville, Ohio

Mobile apps
First place: Boulevard R, San Francisco
Second place: Transamerica Retirement Solutions, Harrison, N.Y.

Fee disclosure and education: Corporate
First place: Vanguard, Wayne, Pa.

Automatic re-enrollment: Corporate
Honorable mention: J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services, Westerville, Ohio

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