Advisor Newsletters
I have found these articles which I hope you find useful in your 401(k) practice. Advisors frequently ask about topics to help "get in the door". These articles discuss topics that should perk up a plan sponsor or employers ears.
- Firms offer advice on Roth 401(k) transfers
- Third Party Fiduciaries – Myth and Reality
- Four myths about small businesses and benefits
- 5 steps to building your advisor business in 2013
- New regs leave 401(k) biz 'wide open' for advisers
- A beginner's guide to working with 401(k) plans
- The pros and cons of a benefit practice offering retirement plan services
- Surprise! Plan Sponsors chose advisers based on comfort, fit - not pricing
- 6 ways to prove your worth to a plan sponsor
- On the Benefits of Unbundled 401(k)s
- Roth: Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
- 3 Common Investor Mistakes All Retail and 401(k) Investors Should Avoid
- Small retirement plans, Big opportunities
- How Plan Sponsors Select Advisors
- Check your providers, protect your clients
- Unintended consequences ERISA 408(b)(2) fee disclosure may lead to less service and options
- What RIAs must know about hidden, and excessive, fees in serving as fiduciaries to a 401(k) plan
- See-Through 401(k) Fees May Lead to Churn; Transparency on costs could lead to unbundling, provider switches
- Can’t Get Your Foot in the Door?
- DC plan participants don't understand risks and allocations
- Participant Fee Disclosures for Brokerage Windows
- Retirement Plan Service Provider and Investment Fee Disclosures: More Work To Be Done
- How Well Do You Know Your B/D?
- Financial Advisors Turn to the 401(k) Market for More Business
- Not Making The Grade
- Use of managed 401(k) funds on the rise
- Are Your 401(k) funds money losers?
- New DOL Regulations Impact Plan Sponsor
- The Day After 408b2 Effective Date: What Happens on July 2, 2012?[/
- Broker-dealers covered under new fee disclosure regs
- 408(b)(2) Disclosures for Solicitor’s Fees
- The Checklist for the Ideal 401k Investment Due Diligence Process
- 401(k) Plan Brokerage Windows and Participant Fee Disclosures
- The Ten Commandments of Selecting a Mutual Fund as a 401k Option
- The habits of successful retirement plan advisers
- MODEL PORTFOLIOS IN RETIREMENT PLANS
- DOL rule threatens DC plan brokerage windows
- Retirement industry changes on deck for 2012
- Big opportunities in small retirement plan market
- Advisors Obligated to Report Fees and Services
- How to become a retirement plan governance resource
- Boosting profitability in the small retirement plan market
- DOL issues final rules on 401(k) investment advice
- 10 Questions the DOL Wants 401k Plan Sponsors to Ask Their Investment Consultant
- 7 areas of 'relief' for advisors in DOL's reproposed fiduciary rule
- Small business retirement plan market largely untapped
- Five Plan Trends
- Retirement plans: Value for service
- Meet the "ERISA Account", the newcomer to the small 401(k) plan scene
- Deferred comp plans: when they're a great choice, and when they're not
- IRS Announces Pension Plan Limitations for 2012
- Increasing demand for 401(k) advice
- Research shows too many choices, inadequate education impairs participants' 401(k) decisions
- Are employers enabling bad retirement habits?
- Running the Cash Balance Plan: Fund Mismatch
- Changing Plan Providers - Rules to consider
- Partners can't have individual SEP plans, says IRS
- New Regs May Warrant Reconsidering Cash Balance
- Pensions: A Changing Focus on Risk
- 5 Considerations for Investing in Target-Date Funds
- Nine Steps For Developing 401(k) Business
- Are retirement advisors disappearing? Retirement advising may change forever as older advisors retire...with no one to replace them
- Five More Myths About 401(k) Plans
- New Disclosure Regulations Under ERISA sections 408(b)(2) and 404(a)(1
- Five Common Myths about 401ks
- Will New Rules Nudge Up 401(k) Costs?
- Investment strategies for cash balance plans - more risk than you thought
- IRS issues final and proposed regulations for hybrid plans
- Plan Size Influences 401k Plan Fees
- Just out of Reish: Roth Is Wrong - for Some People (Part II)
- Compliance with 408(b)(2) Business
- New Year's Resolutions Defined Contribution Plan Sponsors Should Make
- Financial Planners Are Key to Retirement Success, Regardless of Age
- 5 retirement planning mistakes;
- Cash Balance Plan Sales Tips;
- Avoid Liability when Choosing Fund Class;
- Bundled 401(k)s may be Ripping Off Your Clients
- Cash Balance Plan as Buy-Out Tool;
- Roth may be Wrong;
- Retirement for Small-Biz Owners;
- Mutual Fund Alphabet Soup;
- In-Plan rollovers to Designated Roth
