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Principal Marks Completion of Wells Trust and Custody Business
With the acquisition’s completion, Principal Custody Solutions can now serve institutional clients of all sizes with both retirement and non-retirement custodial and trust solutions.
PLANADVISER Adviser Choice Awards
PLANADVISER announces winners of annual Adviser Choice Awards, to be handed out at the 2022 PLANADVISER Industry Leaders Awards on May 3, 2022 in New York City.
Coca-Cola Consolidated Settles ERISA Fiduciary Lawsuit for $3.5M
The settlement includes both monetary and nonmonetary aspects.
Virtual Adviser Meetings: Here To Stay or Soon To Go?
Advisers review the main pros and cons of digital meetings and discuss whether or not they will become a permanent fixture.
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.
Cover Story
The Virtual Reality
Most plans offer digital access, yet participant engagement lags—what can advisers do?
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.
Trends
Take Action for Change
The events of the past few years have helped supercharge efforts to address the longstanding and concerning lack of diversity and inclusion in the financial services industry.
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An Objectivity Lesson
The more objective the presentation, the less likely it will seem like advice.
Retirement Industry People Moves
Creative Planning acquires JBJ Invest; Vestmark names direct indexing senior vice president; HBL expands ERISA litigation capabilities; and more.
Where Student Loan Debt, Retirement Savings and Financial Wellness Intersect
Research and advisory experts share their perspectives on how student debt affects workers and employers, while offering insights on the intersection of financial wellness and retirement planning.
Retirement Industry Rallies Around LIFE Act
The bill would amend the DOL’s current default investment safe harbor regulations to allow, but not require, a retirement plan’s default investment to include a limited investment in...
Mixed Ruling Filed in NFP–flexPATH ERISA Lawsuit
The complicated ruling offers some support for the defendants’ arguments but allows other claims to proceed to discovery and trial.
ERISA Advisory Body Suggests Reviewing Plan Leakage Penalties
Its report studied ways the DOL can try to close the gaps in retirement savings based on rase, ethnicity and gender.
The Case for Alternatives in DC Plans
Defined contribution plan sponsors including alternative investments may need to use retirement plan advisers to evaluate and monitor the investments, because alternative investments typically have higher fees than...
Only One-Third of Households Report Having a Written Financial Plan
Research found written plans are associated with higher savings and bigger emergency funds.
Useful Advice as Rates Rise and Markets Move
With markets off to a choppy start in 2022 and rate hikes on the horizon, inflation is top of mind for many investors, as demonstrated by a D.A....