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Best Practices To Vet a Vendor’s Cybersecurity Practices
Experts in Cybersecurity provide tips on how to assess partners' defenses in a recent PLANADVISER Cybersecurity livestream.
Financial Wellness
Demand Performance
With increasing costs, financial wellness programs should prove their worth.
Case sensitive
Are They Legally Binding?
Circuit courts are mixed on arbitration clauses in plan documents.
Roundtable
The Talent Pipeline
For our latest PLANADVISER roundtable, Alex Ortolani, editor of PLANADVISER, digital, talked with (from left, above) Sara Matlock, vice president – consulting, SWBC Retirement Plan Services; Julie Ragatz, vice president,...
Cover Story
At the Core
The adviser’s essential role is to help clients meet their fiduciary obligations.
Feature
A Need to Show Value
How advisers can justify their fees and help sponsors find other ways to cut costs.
On the Move
On the Move
Long Moves to Board Chairman SageView Advisory Group CEO and founder Randy Long stepped into the role of board chairman, September 1, as the firm continues expanding from...
DOL Fiduciary Proposal Expected by End of October
The proposal is expected to redefine fiduciary in the context of retirement investment advice.
Most Retirees Would Change Retirement Strategy, Lincoln Financial Finds
Separately, Hartford Funds’ Mike Lynch says employers should consider a program for retirees to mentor pre-retirees to improve retirement readiness.
Retirement Industry People Moves – 10/20/23
SageView enhances wealth management leadership team; Marasco to lead new protected retirement team; Northern Trust Asset Management names new co-head of wealth client group; and more.
SEC Proposes Partial Ban on Volume-Based Discounts for Brokers
The ban would prevent exchanges from offering volume-based pricing schemes to brokers for agency trades, a practice the SEC sees as benefitting larger broker/dealers.
2023 PLANADVISER National Conference On Demand
Recorded sessions offer expert perspectives on communicating with staff and clients, enhancing your practice and marketing strategies, and solving retirement savings and income challenges.
US Retirement System Matches Worldwide Average With C+ Grade
The US scored 63 on an overall index for pension coverage value, 23 points behind the No. 1 spot held by the Netherlands, according to a Mercer and...
OMB Begins Holding Stakeholder Meetings for New Fiduciary Rule
The proposal will likely address compensation structures and IRA rollovers, though no draft is available yet.
Rethinking Retirement: Current State, Challenges, and Future Opportunities
PLANADVISER National Conference 2023 | Comprehensive data from the ISS Market Intelligence Brightscope DC plan database reveal retirement savings gaps and opportunities for advisers to button up the...
Seeing Opportunity in Change
PLANADVISER National Conference 2023 | Inflationary pressures. Ongoing market volatility. Legislative developments. If plan sponsors can expect anything, it’s the unexpected. But with change come opportunities for plan...
Sponsored by T. Rowe Price
Investment Product & Service Launches – 10/12/23
PGIM enhances target-date funds; Pantheon announces new private credit secondaries fund; Morgan Stanley at Work launches charitable giving solution; and more.
Experts: Good Demographic Data Key to Driving Plan Design
Going beyond foundational participant data is valuable in addressing employee needs and attitudes, according to a panel of retirement industry experts.
Two Plan Sponsors Accused of Improper Use of 401(k) Forfeitures
ERISA experts point to longstanding and widespread practice of using forfeitures to reduce future employer contributions or pay reasonable expenses.
Colgate-Palmolive Submits Motion for Summary Judgment in Retirement Fraud Lawsuit
Legal Counsel for the Colgate-Palmolive Employee Relations Committee aim to terminate the plan sponsor's participation in a lawsuit alleging the misappropriation of a participant's retirement plan funds by...