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Plan sponsors are happy with their advisors

Financial advisors working on 401(k) advisors have happy clients, according to a new Fidelity survey. Fidelity’s annual Plan Sponsor Attitudes Study, now in its 15th year, surveyed over 1,100 employers offering retirement plans. The survey found that not...

The Fear of Failure

There is this scene in the comedy, Top Secret! where Nick Rivers (played by Val Kilmer) is having a nightmare that he’s back in school and has no idea where the college final is. He wakes up and realizes he’s being tortured and his happier with being tort...

The way to grow a PEP is through the state mandates

I’m all for states requiring employers to offer a retirement plan or join the state-end...

Don’t use forfeitures to reduce

There are plenty of cases out there, arguing that plan sponsors that use forfeitures to r...

IRS provides matching guidance

The Internal Revenue Service issued interim guidance on employer matching contributions m...

Prime Pension expands with another TPA purchase

Third Party Administrator Prime Pensions Inc. has purchased third-party administrator Val...

Lincoln to offer lifetime income solutions

Lincoln Financial Group announced the addition to its in-plan guaranteed income investmen...

The nuisance value

When I write about the need for plan sponsors to understand their responsibilities as pla...

In the end, it’s all about competent plan administration

While I know my discussions about payroll provider third-party administration firms (TPAs...

Clues that it’s time for a plan review

As many of you know, I offer a Retirement Plan Tune-Up, a legal review for $750 that revi...