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Never steal plan assets

I’ve seen plan sponsors do it, I’ve seen employees do it, and I’ve seen plan providers do it....

ERISA attorneys and the snowball effect

The snowball effect is a term for a process that starts from something that is small and builds upo...

Get rid of the bad decision makers

I was a Vice President of a synagogue once and the biggest problem I had is that the people who had...

The one fund family lineup Is a bad idea

You must know about the shoemakers’ children and how they go barefoot and have no shoes. In the r...

The meaningless of awards

I work in an industry that has a terrible reputation. Not the retirement plan industry, the legal i...

The problem with former employees

I always say that the reason I don’t have employees is I was an employee once too. My joke about ...

Make sure you do those brokerage windows correctly

A character in This Is Spinal Tap said it best: “there is a fine line between being clever and be...

The former employee has an axe to grind

Someone I know was let go during COVID in April 2020. Thankfully, they were reemployed rather quick...

Just some of these things to juice your plan while it’s being restated

Between now and July 2022, your 401(k) plan will be going through a mandatory restatement. The resta...

Make it easy for plan participants to understand

Less is more, I believe that. As an attorney in an occupation where most attorneys charge by the hou...