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Pew study shows retirement gap

Some disturbing projections came out of a Pew study on retirement plan savings. The ne...

Minnesota to add retirement program

Minnesota is slated to become the next to adopt a measure creating a state...

New RIA firm launched to evaluate 401(k) annuity options

I always say a retirement plan provider needs to find its niche to stand out in the retir...

Watch out for the advice given by your employees

I have a client who is a third-party administrator and it appears that a former employee ...

3(38) field is growing, as it should

When I first heard about ERISA §3(38) fiduciaries, I was a lowly law firm associate and ...

Don’t let them push you around

I’ve watched Survivor since it first started about 23 years ago and I never tried out f...

Plan errors are more likely than fiduciary breaches

If you read my writings, you know that fiduciary liability is one of the plan sponsor’s...

The problem of free or cheap plan documents

As an ERISA attorney who drafts plan documents at a flat fee, my biggest competitors are ...

Plan sponsors simply can’t overpay

When I was 13 and I had my Bar Mitzvah, I plucked down about $2,000 in 1985 money for a s...

Plans don’t want retirement income solution

While there has been a push to allow 401(k) plan sponsors to offer retirement income solu...