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2022 Regulatory Update
Our annual Regulatory Update provides an overview of current legal and legislative events impacting the retirement plan and investment industry.
Our annual Regulatory Update provides an overview of current legal and legislative events impacting the retirement plan and investment industry.
Download our guide to help understand what the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) (and similar state laws) requires for retirement plans, how committees have typically functioned, and how committees will need to function to be successful and sustaining for years to come.
We believe there are six areas where recordkeeping vendors have tried to monetize their relationship with retirement plans. This plan sponsor guide focuses on the fourth way of generating excess revenue ?ĂÂĂÂÄÂĂÂ???????ĂÂĂÂÄÂĂÂ??????ĂÂĂÂÄÂĂÂ???ĂÂĂÂÄÂĂÂĂÂĂÂÄÂĂÂ????ĂÂĂÂÄÂĂÂ??????ĂÂĂÂÄÂĂÂ??cross-selling retail financial products. For plan sponsors, it is important to understand how recordkeepers cross-sell retail financial products and what the plan sponsor?ĂÂĂÂÄÂĂÂ???????ĂÂĂÂÄÂĂÂ??????ĂÂĂÂÄÂĂÂ???ĂÂĂÂÄÂĂÂĂÂĂÂÄÂĂÂ????ĂÂĂÂÄÂĂÂ??????ĂÂĂÂÄÂĂÂ?ĂÂĂÂÄÂĂÂ???????s obligation is to reduce or eliminate such cross-selling.
This discussion guide is intended to help facilitate a retirement plan committee's review of the primary services offered by their recordkeeper(s).
When it comes to conducting manager selection, it is the things unseen that are the key to having confidence in the manager's ability to outperform in the future. This short resource guide provides a look into how we conduct our investment manager due diligence.
Our Fiduciary Education for Your Retirement or Investment Committee resource walks through the importance of continued fiduciary education for current and new committee members.
Our "Best Practices for Managing a Retirement Plan Committee" plan sponsor resource walks though the most important items to address and follow in items in running and managing a retirement plan committee.
Our retirement plan vendor conflicts resources help you identify, monitor, and avoid any conflicts with your plan's service providers + a worksheet to assist in asking the right questions about potential conflicts.
Download our reporting to the board plan sponsor resource for a deep dive into what information needs to be reported to the Board + much more.
Meeting minutes capture the discussion and decisions of the investment committee. Several sets of meeting minutes help weave together the story of the actions the committee has taken related to their retirement plan. Our resource walk through what plan sponsors should know about this documentation.
A toolkit for plan sponsors to help understand what default investment options are available and why target date funds are the most popular.