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Make it easy for plan participants to understand

Less is more, I believe that. As an attorney in an occupation where most attorneys charge ...

Plan committees have to meet

I used to joke that at the law firm I was at, that if the Managing Attorney wanted to bury...

Townsend joins DOL

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend joined the Department of Labor (DOL) to help advance state and f...

DOL has always dropped the ball on disclosure

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that 45% of plan participants are not...

Cutting Edge is usually Over The Edge

After 23 years in the retirement plan business, one thing that stands out is that plan pro...

SBDA account balances are up

With the market up, it makes sense that self-directed brokerage accounts in defined contri...

401(k) plans add Roth, but participants aren’t

About 75% of 401(k) plans allowed employees to save money in a Roth account in 2019, but p...

Xerox hit with ERISA lawsuit

I’m old enough to remember when a photocopy and Xerox were considered the same. Xerox wa...

40% of plan participants don’t know what their fees are, most of the other 60% also have no clue

According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), about 40% of 401(k) plan particip...

SEC Action on cybersecurity are just a harbinger of things to come

I’ve said it for a long time. It’s imperative that plan sponsors and plan providers wa...