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The legend in his own mind

When your practice is successful as a retirement plan provider, you’re going to want to ...

The rules are the rules

While I went to law school for a law degree and stayed an extra year to get a tax LLM degr...

Like your parents, the IRS VCP program wants you to come clean

As a child, you’re usually told by your parents that they just want to hear the truth an...

Like your parents, the IRS VCP program wants you to come clean

As a child, you’re usually told by your parents that they just want to hear the truth an...

Benchmark your providers

I had a contractor work on my house for a couple of projects. Frank installed a new front ...

The Problem With Loans

They often say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I don’t know who sai...

What financial advisors really do

One would think that the role of a retirement plan financial advisor is to pick plan inves...

The Magic Bullet of 404(c) Compliance

ERISA §404(c), is the code section that may limit a plan sponsor’s liability in retirem...

Sometimes, they get it

As an ERISA attorney, I do get to talk to a lot of financial advisors and ERISA independen...

The Truth about plan disqualification

In the movie Casino, Robert De Niro’s character Lefty Rosenthal warns Joe Pesci’s char...