CitiStreet Enjoys Another Year of Business Growth
February 26 2008 - 11:28AM
Business Wire
CitiStreet enjoyed across-the-board business growth last year,
which was marked by the company surpassing 12 million total benefit
plan participants served, a doubling in participants since its
founding eight years ago, it was announced today. CitiStreet said
that across all defined contribution markets, new and renewed
customer commitments added up to $47 billion in assets. Its
institutional defined benefit business grew by six plans ranging in
size from 5,500 participants to 50,000 participants. It was the
seventh straight full year of growth for CitiStreet since it came
into existence as a joint venture between Citigroup and State
Street Corp. �Our long-range goal for steady growth is on track.
And we feel very comfortable that sustained growth will continue
well into the future,� said Phil Lussier, CitiStreet chairman and
CEO. �Our exclusive focus on benefits services, our ability to
provide personalized solutions for each plan and strong
relationships with our existing customers are keys to this growth.�
He noted that solid existing relationships led to an increase in
defined benefit business as customers took advantage of
CitiStreet�s leading Total Retirement Outsourcing solution that
makes DB and DC benefits information available through a single
platform. �The integration of benefit servicing, which allows
sponsors to consolidate outsourcing and reduce costs, will be a
significant part of our business going forward,� said Sandy
McCarthy, CitiStreet president. �Many plan sponsors are now looking
for a long-term integrated approach to benefits that brings
together information not just about defined contribution saving,
but also pension plan benefits and health care decisions.� In
product and service development last year, CitiStreet announced the
launch of its expanded tools and services for fiduciaries in a
program called PlanFIRST�. The program includes an online Website,
PlanFIRST Online. The program includes tailored proactive
compliance solutions and comprehensive fee disclosure. It also
includes fiduciary guides for corporate and governmental sponsors
and their counsels, compliance checklists, sample policy
statements, sample disclosures, white papers, timely and topical
newsletters and Web cast replays and transcripts. �PlanFIRST
encapsulates the high standards of service and care that we deliver
to our customers,� said Gary Jenkins, CitiStreet general counsel.
In 2007, CitiStreet announced the rollout of an enhanced managed
account service that includes ongoing account monitoring and
management, expanded personal evaluation statements with
personalized forecasts and an online site exclusively for
participants who enroll in the managed account service. The
enhanced Professional Account Manager also offers plan sponsors
some new reporting tools designed to assist them in meeting their
fiduciary monitoring responsibilities set forth in the Pension
Protection Act. �As defined contribution plans continue becoming
the main retirement savings vehicle for many Americans,
professional advice in accumulation and distribution of assets
remains a chief advantage for today�s retirement plan participants
as compared to savings plans of the past,� said Ray Martin,
president and CEO of CitiStreet Advisors. CitiStreet also launched
a new Web service for benefit plan participants that is a full
decision-support service that offers far more opportunities for
personalized communications to individual participants such as
targeted messages based on demographics, savings trends and other
characteristics. The new, easier navigated Web site also includes
personal investment performance analysis over any reporting period,
a sophisticated savings calculator, direct links to retirement
advice and many other features. �We are proud of our consistent
growth. And we will continue to invest in new and enhanced
services, and the technology that drives them, to best serve our
plans sponsors and their participants,� said McCarthy. About
CitiStreet CitiStreet, one of the largest global benefits delivery
firms in the United States, is headquartered in Quincy, Mass.
CitiStreet has 3,000 employees at offices in Somerset, N.J.,
Jacksonville, Fla., Lewiston, Maine, Boston and field offices
around the nation. It also has a division, CitiStreet Australia,
with offices in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. CitiStreet serves
more than 12 million participants and administers more than $230
billion in assets in the United States for defined contribution,
defined benefit and health and welfare plans of corporate,
government, health care, not-for-profit and other organizations. It
also serves more than 1 million participants and administers more
than $20 billion in assets outside the United States. CitiStreet is
a 50/50 joint venture between State Street Corp. (NYSE:STT) and
Citigroup (NYSE:C). For more CitiStreet information, visit the Web
site at www.citistreetonline.com.
State Street (NYSE:STT)
Historical Stock Chart
From Jun 2024 to Jul 2024
State Street (NYSE:STT)
Historical Stock Chart
From Jul 2023 to Jul 2024