July-August 2009

PPA provides some help for fiduciaries mapping participant investments

New products, highlights, announcements

Deferred compensation plans are getting squeezed—along with every other aspect of executive compensation—but still can provide opportunities for advisers

By now, readers of PLANADVISER should be aware that the third annual PLANADVISER National Conference is only weeks away—September 23 through 25 in Orlando, Florida, at the Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes.

Decide what kind of adviser you want to be, then evaluate the services of a broker/dealer

Target-dates useful but flawed, witnesses tell SEC and DoL

Every quarter presents opportunity

Tired of giving the same old presentations? Use these nuggets of information to spruce them up.

401(k) plan benchmarking moves on

How retirement plan advisers can better reach a young, transient workforce

Articles that appeared in the Trendspotting section of the magazine

We hadn’t gotten very far into the agenda of PLANSPONSOR’s Plan Designs conference in June when a plan sponsor asked the question that, IMHO, is on a lot of people’s minds these days and, while I don’t remember her exact words, the essence was this: “What can you say to participants who no longer trust their 401(k)?”