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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...

The Quick and The Dead

Like Dr. Barbay said in the Rodney Dangerfield classic, there are two types of people in business: â...

Always Do The Right Thing

You could always lament in your life about the decisions you made or the decisions you should have m...