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Online, Automated, and Automatic Enrollment
VALIC offers online enrollment through a quick, informative, and easy to complete
process. Participants can
Quick Enroll
through several different channels – text messaging,
mobile app, and web browsers (including PCs, tablets and smartphones).
Participants can enroll with VALIC’s one step quick enrollment via text message - a
testament to VALIC’s commitment to differentiating ourselves in the market.
Alternatively, participants can take these steps to enroll:
1. Provide some basic information about themselves
2. Select their contribution rate
3. Click Enroll.
The participant is automatically enrolled in the plan’s default investment option and can
choose different investment elections and update beneficiaries any time. Participants can
also set up automatic increases to gradually invest more over time.
Additionally, VALIC can provide automatic plan enrollment and automatic contribution
increases at a predetermined rate according to the plan document. This encourages active
participation in the plan, improving overall retirement readiness for your eligible employees.
Participant E-Newsletters
“Retirement Essentials,” provides articles on retirement planning, financial planning, market
trends and more. Participants are provided with a version of the newsletter that is
associated with their demographic (Millennial, Gen X, Baby Boomer). VALIC can also
provide seminar information or financial content to the plan sponsor, for inclusion in their
general benefits employee communications.
Social Media Platforms
The VALIC digital strategy team stays current on social media trends, communicating
general retirement education information via a variety of ever-changing social media
platforms. We also collect social media feedback to improve our services.
VALIC also maintains a YouTube Channel with educational videos at
https://www.youtube.com/user/valicEmail Marketing
Email marketing is tailored to participant demographic data to identify unique employee
populations and trends within your organization, helping to provide appropriate and
influential content to the right employees. Emails can be customized to communicate
specific plan information and objectives, or general retirement planning education.
Proactive Notifications
Personal Retirement Notifications help your employees recognize changes in eligibility,
employment and/or plan status to entice proactive engagement with your plan to put
participants in charge of their futures. Plan Sponsors can select from a list of 19 proactive
and specifically targeted online participant notifications (see below chart), triggered by a
variety of employment changes and life events.