PLANADVISER Weekend Newsdash
Week ending July 27th, 2019

Happy Friday, readers! There are a lot of elements to ensuring success in the financial advisory profession, but at the core is quality client service. You can have the best growth rate in the industry and the most effective sales staffers out there, but if you aren’t retaining existing clients, it will all be for naught. Collected below is a series of articles on the topic of ensuring quality client service. We hope you will share some of what you read with a client or colleague.

Client Service
2019 PLANADVISER Micro Plan Survey
A look at the many services that retirement plan advisers provide to micro plans, i.e. those with less than $5 million in assets, particularly review of fund performance and plan investment selection guidance. Read more >
Strategies to Maximize Social Security and Medicare
When to start taking Social Security is one of the most important, and complicated, financial decisions a person can make. Read more >
Advisers Should Check Individual Investors’ Unfounded Optimism
Individual investors expect roughly twice the yearly returns forecast by their advisers and investment managers. Read more >
Learning the Medicare Alphabet Is a Must for Modern Advisers
Do you know the difference between Medicare Parts A and B? What About Parts C and D? Read more >
Newly Allowed 401(k)s Will Need Advisers
Advisers may shy away from helping hemp and CBD companies with their 401(k)s because they may find themselves crossing into advising for a cannabis company as well, but there are protections—and money to be made. Read more >
Millennial Misconceptions: Younger Workers Prioritize Retirement
Millennials may make different life choices than previous generations, but they are also more engaged at an earlier age with retirement savings in the workplace. Read more >
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2023 Retirement Plan Adviser of the Year Finalists

Award recipients will be recognized at the PLANADVISER Industry Leader Awards in New York City.

A Reminder to Avoid Fraudulent Hardship Withdrawals

An individual in Ohio was recently indicted by a grand jury on charges that he fraudulently claimed the assets he withdrew from his retirement account would be used to purchase a primary residence and to pay medical expenses.

With SECURE 2.0, the Cash Balance DB Plan May Be Back

Experts at a DB Summit discussed the resurgence of cash balance plans and the advantages of variable benefit plans tied to the markets.

Small Businesses and SECURE 2.0: Exemptions and Tax Credits

SECURE 2.0 offers tax credits to create plans, as well as to join existing PEPs and MEPs.

Retirement Industry People Moves

T. Rowe Price announces Shen as Chief Data Officer; New York Life Appoints Tillotson as Chief Compliance Officer; O'Brien named head of portfolio management at Insight Investment; and more.

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