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Sometimes Plan Sponsors just want to throw you off their “scent”

When you meet retirement plan sponsors just at different networking events and they find out that yo...

Show Plan Sponsors it doesn’t have to be that way

Have you ever been a customer of a service and then you switch to another provider and you’re asto...

Read the plan document

Being an ERISA attorney for a couple of third party administration (TPA) firms when I first started ...

Why you have nothing to fear about government being in the retirement plan business

As a retirement plan provider, competition is a big thing and the last thing you want is a competito...

Sorry Fred, it’s about drawing a dime

At my old law firm (yes, that semi-prestigious law firm in Long Island), we had a law firm administr...

Education is an important part of the fiduciary process

Advisors ask me all the time of the role of education in participant directed 401(k) plans. Particip...

As a plan provider, make sure there are security processes in place

As a retirement plan provider, you have something to do with the retirement plan assets and may have...

The Good Old Days For Advisors Are Gone

In the good old days of participant directed 401(k) plans, a good chunk of financial advisors did ve...

Some TPA Humor

I worked 9 years working as an ERISA attorney for a couple of third party administrators (TPA) and I...

Social media and word of mouth aren’t mutually exclusive

I’m a big fan of social media because I’ve seen the magic in works in being an essential compone...