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ERISA 04.17.2025

Confused About Outsourcing?

  It’s common practice for retirement plan sponsors to outsource services and support. Doing so is a wise move, since outsourcing frees businesses to focus on their core functions, and brings expertise to the retirement…
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Confused About Outsourcing?
ERISA 04.17.2025

Gen X: Ready Or Not—Retirement!

Even as Baby Boomers retire, and un-retire, and as the “great transfer” of their wealth to younger generations unfolds, the oldest members of Gen X are hitting 60 this year, and many hope to retire…
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Gen X: Ready Or Not—Retirement!
ERISA 04.10.2025

Correction In Real Time

  Despite diligence, achieving error-free compliance with regulations for company sponsored retirement plans can be tough. Mistakes and oversights do happen, and proactively addressing them is best practice. Updates made by the Employee Benefits Security…
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Correction In Real Time
ERISA 04.10.2025

Clear and Accurate: Beneficiaries?

  For most savers, the 401k plan represents their largest asset toward ensuring both a secure older age, and the possibility of leaving loved ones with “at least a little something” for their well-being. Needless…
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Clear and Accurate: Beneficiaries?
ERISA 04.03.2025

Pay Attention: Older Workers

Driven by a variety of factors, including improved health, shifting attitudes about retirement, and financial necessity, the number of employees aged 65 and older continues to steadily increase. Wise employers are tuning into the trend,…
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Pay Attention: Older Workers
ERISA 04.03.2025

Investments: What Does ERISA Say?

More than a decade into lawsuits alleging that retirement plan sponsors have violated ERISA fiduciary duties by offering weak and costly investment options to participants, new claims continue to be filed. What exactly does ERISA…
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Investments: What Does ERISA Say?
ERISA 03.27.2025

Fiduciary Duties: Ask Why

Retirement plan sponsors can easily find themselves going down the rabbit hole of ERISA requirements. Even the lingo can be head tripping. Given what’s at stake though, —-a retirement account is often the biggest asset…
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Fiduciary Duties: Ask Why
ERISA 03.27.2025

ERISA Hot Button: Forfeitures?

  Will the wave of ERISA lawsuits related to the handling of retirement plan forfeitures result in a potential upheaval of how these funds must be managed? Only time will tell, but as allegations continue…
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ERISA Hot Button: Forfeitures?
ERISA 03.20.2025

Heroes, Heartbreaks and Hopes…

What do heroes, heartbreaks and hopes have to do with sponsoring a 401k plan? A whole lot when we pause to remember: ultimately, our duties as fiduciaries are about people—people who aspire to healthy and…
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Heroes, Heartbreaks and Hopes…