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Don’t let them trade off your name

When I was an associate at that forgotten law firm or when I started my own practice, I did a lot o...

Complacency can kill a TPA

For me, one of the worst things that any business can have is a sense of complacency; I have spent ...

Don’t change

When I started my own National ERISA/ retirement plan law practice more than 13 years ago, it wasnâ...

Plan provider changes should be for the right reasons

Everyone has an opinion, but I think the independent opinion that is guided by beliefs and not by p...

There is always opportunity

If you lived in my household as a kid, you wouldn’t be surprised I was a kid who saw a glass, hal...

Read the plan document

Stealing a line from Chris Rock, I once joked while working at a third-party administrator (TPA) th...

They can always get sued

The fact is that sometimes, bad things happen to good people. That can be said about retirement pla...

A Gig PEP could be a thing

Over the past few years, more and more workers have become gig workers. In reality, they are just s...

It’s almost 2 years and it’s a guarantee that some PEPs are failing

January 1, 2024, will be two years of Pooled Employer Plans (PEPs). While new PEPs have been launch...

The problem with bigger

I know quite a few advisors that get upset when a plan provider is inching toward being a full comp...