MassMutual Retirement Services Makes 'The Journey(SM)' Easier for Participants

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- MassMutual Retirement Services Division has launched a redesign of The Journey(SM), its Web site for participants of retirement plans. The enhancements are designed to help guide participants to make informed decisions regarding the management of their retirement savings in a simpler, more intuitive manner.

The new design takes advantage of a simplified participant enrollment process that debuted in May, and has adopted the best "look and feel" elements of MassMutual's corporate Web site, www.massmutual.com. While all of the functionality that previously existed is still available, The Journey redesign includes more user-friendly naming conventions that help participants easily locate tools and information such as calculators and investment options.

"We received positive feedback from clients and participants on how much they liked The Journey's simple, two-click enrollment process. So we took the best attributes from that design and MassMutual's corporate Web site and applied them across the entire participant experience," says Hugh O'Toole, senior vice president and head of national sales and distribution for MassMutual's Retirement Services Division.

Improvements to the online investment selection process also make it easier for participants to identify which options are suited to their needs. For plans that have added MassMutual's CustomChoice Strategies(SM) model portfolios, these are also accessible from The Journey as a way for participants to become appropriately invested easily and quickly. With CustomChoice Strategies, a participant's retirement savings are being allocated across a diversified portfolio that reflects their investment goals, comfort level with investment risk or a combination of both.

A new log-in box in the upper right hand corner of every page of MassMutual's corporate Web site, www.massmutual.com, makes The Journey as well as the MassMutual's plan sponsor Web site, the Total Retirement Center (TRC), more readily accessible. Participants are encouraged to take a "tour" of The Journey home page at http://www.massmutual.com/retire to help them become familiar with the new layout of the site.

"MassMutual's redesign of The Journey is part of our continuing commitment to meet the evolving transactional and educational needs of retirement plan participants," says Elaine Sarsynski, executive vice president of MassMutual's Retirement Services Division and chairman and CEO of MassMutual International LLC. "Plan sponsors and advisors truly appreciate the great value The Journey delivers on behalf of participants."

For more information about MassMutual retirement services, please contact your retirement plan advisor or call MassMutual at (888) 626-4911.

    Contact: Lisa Reilly
    413-744-0589
    lreilly@massmutual.com

SOURCE MassMutual Retirement Services

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