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Advisors: What the 2025 T. Rowe Price DC Consultant Study Means for Your Practice

Let’s cut through the marketing fluff and look at what the 2025 T. Rowe Price Defined Contribution Consultant Study is really telling us, and more importantly, what it means for financial advisors who want to stay relevant, valuable, and indispensable. 1...

Advisors: If You Want to Be Loved by Plan Sponsors, Focus on Participant Outcomes

Plan sponsors aren’t hiring advisors so they can get fancy PowerPoints or attendance at cocktail events, increasingly, they’re paying for outcomes. NAPA’s latest slice-and-dice of Fidelity’s Plan Sponsor Attitudes Study shows a clear message: for the ...

If You Want to Hide Something, Put It in the Plan Document

To steal a joke from Chris Rock, when I worked at a TPA as the lead ERISA attorney, I used to joke ...

Walking on Eggshells with Plan Sponsors

A long-time client of a financial advisor had a 401(k) plan sponsor that was quiet, easy to deal wi...

Cracker Barrel and the Wrong Kind of Change

I’ll admit it—I loved Cracker Barrel. Living in New York, I never had one nearby, so whenever I...

Pay Now or Pay More Later: The Real Cost of Underpaying Employees

When I look back on my brief tenure at that union law firm, the irony wasn’t lost on me. We were ...

The Road to Hell… and Retirement Plans

One of my favorite sayings is: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” To me, it’s ...

Why TPAs Shouldn’t Ignore SEP-IRAs—But Also Shouldn’t Stop There

If you’re a TPA and you’re not talking to your small business clients about SEP-IRAs, you’re ...

Even If You’re Right, You Can Still Get Sued

There’s a hard truth about being a plan sponsor or a plan provider: you can be doing everything r...

It All Works Out in the End

When I look back at my time as an employee, before I ran my own practice, before I was speaking in ...