Meet the 2016 PLANSPONSOR Retirement Plan Advisers of the Year

Retirement Plan Adviser Mega Team of the Year

Alliance Benefit Group Financial Services, Corp.

Alliance Benefit Group attests that its unique service approach has “dramatically improved” a number of sponsors’ plans, noting that since 2013, two of its clients have been winners and five have been finalists in the PLANSPONSOR Plan Sponsor of the Year awards program.

• LOCATION: Albert Lea, Minnesota
• PLAN ASSETS UNDER ADVISEMENT: $2.6 billion
• MEDIAN PLAN SIZE (IN ASSETS): $16 million
• TOTAL PLANS UNDER ADMINISTRATION: 150
• TOTAL PARTICIPANTS IN PLANS SERVED: 50,000
• SUPPORT STAFF: 17

Retirement Plan Adviser Large Team of the Year

Newport Capital Group

“By engaging with clients outside the realm of retirement plans, Newport Capital Group can realign the retirement strategy to best fit the specific needs of its clients,” the firm says. “Only by assessing the real aims of our clients can we craft a coordinated retirement strategy that best serves to incent, attract, reward, retain and eventually retire its work force.”

• LOCATION: Red Bank, New Jersey
• PLAN ASSETS UNDER ADVISEMENT: $8.5 billion
• MEDIAN PLAN SIZE (IN ASSETS): $155 million
• TOTAL PLANS UNDER ADMINISTRATION: 104
• TOTAL PARTICIPANTS IN PLANS SERVED: 100,000-plus
• SUPPORT STAFF: 15

Retirement Plan Adviser Small Team of the Year

The Catanella Institutional Consulting Team of UBS

Being proactive and providing customized and personalized solutions for clients is at the heart of the work of The Catanella Institutional Consulting Team of UBS. The practice’s team’s mission statement is “to provide our plan sponsor clients with a customized and service-driven model to deliver successful retirement outcomes for their participants, while effectively helping guide them through the ever-changing fiduciary landscape.”

• LOCATION: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• PLAN ASSETS UNDER ADVISEMENT: $2.3 billion
• MEDIAN PLAN SIZE (IN ASSETS): $55 million
• TOTAL PLANS UNDER ADMINISTRATION: 28
• TOTAL PARTICIPANTS IN PLANS SERVED: 28,140
• SUPPORT STAFF: 2

Retirement Plan Adviser Individual of the Year

Jania Stout, Fiduciary Plan Advisors

A 20-year veteran of the retirement planning industry, Stout started in the industry in recordkeeping and administration at ADP and Fidelity Investments. Wanting to have a greater role in engaging with and offering advice to plan sponsors, eight years ago, Stout became an adviser, and two years ago, she founded her practice in order to “truly help our plan sponsor clients.”

• LOCATION: Phoenix, Maryland
• PLAN ASSETS UNDER ADVISEMENT: $1.5 billion
• MEDIAN PLAN SIZE (IN ASSETS): $40 million
• TOTAL PLANS UNDER ADMINISTRATION: 30
• TOTAL PARTICIPANTS IN PLANS SERVED: 25,000
• SUPPORT STAFF: 4

The full list of 2016 PLANSPONSOR Retirement Plan Advisers of the Year finalists is here.