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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...

Plan committees have to meet

I used to joke that at the law firm I was at, that if the Managing Attorney wanted to bury a particu...

Cutting Edge is usually Over The Edge

After 23 years in the retirement plan business, one thing that stands out is that plan providers are...

Credentials and Awards may mean nothing

A Long Island business newspaper once named my old law firm’s administrator as its Chief Financial...

You don’t need the headache of former employees

A family member just went through the process of locating retirement plan accounts at two different ...