Growing Your Practice | Practice Management A Digital Divide Like recordkeepers, advisers increasingly connect directly with participants via proprietary platforms.
Compliance News Legislative and Judicial Actions The DOL seeks comments about protecting plan assets from climate-related risk; a proposed SEC rule would intensify registered investment adviser...
Growing Your Practice | RFPs The Evolving Use of RFPs The volume has increased, as has what advisers must do to make the finals.
Growing Your Practice | Practice Management Is It Time to Let Go? Working with unprofitable clients can be a challenge.
Growing Your Practice | Communication The Prospects of Staying Virtual Advisers review the main pros and cons of digital meetings.
Trends Retirees and the ‘Risk Zone’ Most Boomers have yet to hear of SOR risk and its threat to their golden years.
Growing Your Practice | NQDC Plans Another Retention Tool Nonqualified deferred compensation plans can help build clientele.
Trends Talking Points of respondents in a recent study by Fidelity Investments said they kept their financial resolutions for 2021, up from 58% in 2020. This suggests that actions taken at...
Improving Outcomes | Plan Design Getting to Yes When alignment on plan-design changes requires overcoming common objections.
Improving Outcomes | Plan Aggregation The Full View The merits of pulling in participants’ external financial information.
Improving Outcomes | Emergency Funds Life Happens When participants have no choice but to draw from their retirement plan.
Publisher’s Note What’s Good for Them If clients ask to add digital investments to their plan, the adviser needs to stress prudence.
Cover Story The Virtual Reality Most plans offer digital access, yet participant engagement lags—what can advisers do?
Data Points Opportunities Abound for Micros The smallest DC plans do have means to catch up to their larger peers.
Improving Outcomes | Total Retirement A Share of the Wealth Each employee gains with an ESOP or a KSOP—how to transform a client’s plan.
Compliance News Legislative and Judicial Actions The DOL denies general support for private equity; the Supreme Court sends ‘Northwestern’ back to the appeals court; the PBGC...