Closing the Gap: How Transparency Can Improve Public Retirement Outcomes explores the challenges facing governmental defined contribution plans and offers actionable solutions to improve accountability, reduce costs, and enhance participant experiences.
As a retirement plan sponsor, your fiduciary responsibilities under ERISA are clear: act in the best interests of your participants with care, skill, and diligence. But when it comes to selecting and monitoring fiduciary retirement plan consultants, the process can be anything but clear.
Explore the evolving landscape of retirement plans and the concept of "retailification," where institutional relationships are leveraged to sell retail products and services to participants.
This year's annual Regulatory Update has significantly shifted from regulation to litigation. The last two publications focused largely on SECURE 2.0 provisions and their impact on retirement plans. SECURE 2.0 remains an active topic in our industry, as many mandatory and optional provisions continue to take effect. However, the litigation focused on plan sponsors and governmental agencies has taken the spotlight.
Transitioning your retirement plan from one recordkeeper to another can be a complex and significant undertaking. In this guide, we will walk you through how to navigate the challenges of such transitions while offering best practices to ensure a seamless experience for both plan sponsors and participants.
This guide seeks to describe, in simplified terms, the practices of effective and efficient retirement plan committees.
Multnomah Group's annual Regulatory Update provides an overview of current legal and legislative events impacting the retirement plan and investment industry.
Conducting a retirement plan audit is a requirement for large plan sponsors governed by ERISA. By following the tips outlined in this guide, you can plan your audit effectively, gather all the necessary information, review plan operations thoroughly, and report your findings clearly, concisely, and effectively.
This Guide explores fiduciary obligations under the ERISA, the role of the investment fiduciary under ERISA Section 404, and how some advisors? actions are now being challenged as unlawful in class action litigation.
This guide begins with a look at why conducting a 401(k) or 403(b) recording keeping vendor search may be necessary to satisfy several of a plan sponsor's fiduciary duties under ERISA, followed by a discussion of the numerous practical benefits that result from a thorough vendor search.
A plan sponsor resource breaking down SECURE 2.0 by effective date.