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Investment Product and Service Launches
LifeYield creates alliance with software-based service organization; Dimensional announces new Investment Solutions Group; Vanguard reopens funds and broadens access to others; and more.
Cybersecurity Is About Protecting Clients—and Your Practice
One element of the cybersecurity discussion that is often overlooked is that the biggest threat to many advisory firms is not actually to client accounts but instead to...
A DOL Secretary Scalia Would Quickly Find Direction
Having served as the DOL Solicitor General under the Bush Administration, experts suggest, Eugene Scalia would likely hit the ground running as a Labor Secretary with a conservative...
A New Investing Approach for Public and Church Pension Plans
River and Mercantile suggests that they use equity derivatives to provide contractual exposure to the equity market, but in a way where risk can be managed.
HSAs, FSAs and HRAs: Get to Know the Health Savings Alphabet
The account types differ quite a lot. Some require same-year spending, most are owned by the employer, and one comes with a triple tax advantage.
Edelman Financial Engines Introduces Fiduciary Distribution Review
The program offers participants one-on-one sessions with a financial planner to discuss their various distribution options.
SEI Agrees to Pay $6.8 Million to Settle Self-Dealing Suit
The defendants also agree to retain the services of an unaffiliated investment consultant to provide an evaluation of the design of the plan’s investment lineup and to review...
Participants Not Up to Speed on Distribution Options
“There can be huge consequences from making the wrong decision, ranging from taxes and penalties to higher fees and risky or poor performing investments," says Ric Edelman, with...
Time to Humbly Brag
I am pleased to roll out a new PLANADVISER initiative that I think is long overdue: Advisers Giving Back.
For a Limited Time, MEPs Can Fix This Form 5500 Mistake
In a new Field Assistance Bulletin, the DOL addresses a set of common errors made by multiple employer plans as they attempt to comply with a reporting rule...
St. Elizabeth’s Wins Suit Challenging Church Plan Status
Using other court decisions, including one from the Supreme Court, the medical center's plan was found to fall under the "church plan" definition in ERISA.
Partnership Allows RIAs to Integrate HSAs Into Retirement Planning
Offering health savings account (HSA) services allows advisers to add value and help clients more holistically plan for retirement, Kristen Donovan, with BAM Retirement Solutions, tells PLANADVISER.
DOL Issues Final Association Retirement Plans Rule
In addition to the final ruling, the department has also released a 16-page request for information (RFI) on open MEPs.
BPAS, MassPay Launch ‘360 Partnership’
The solution automatically synchronizes information between the plan sponsor, recordkeeper, investment provider and employees.
Open MEPs Seen as a Promising Way to Narrow the Coverage Gap
Two-thirds of small businesses that currently do not offer a retirement plan say that they would consider doing so through an open MEP, Empower learned in a survey.
Helping Participants After They Have Taken Hardship Withdrawals
Participants who have taken a hardship withdrawal are nearly three-times more likely to feel “always” stressed in general and three-times more likely to have “a lot” of stress...
Industry Groups Object to Massachusetts Fiduciary Proposal
The Financial Services Institute and the Insured Retirement Institute have both published open letters opining against ambitious conflict of interest regulations proposed in the state.
Retirement Industry People Moves
T. Rowe Price adds senior DC adviser strategist; GW&K introduces New VP for Global Equity; Eagle Asset Management names portfolio manager for active equity strategies; and more.
Researchers Provide Examples for Using ‘Simple’ Retirement Drawdown Strategy
In addition, the report discusses possible refinements to the baseline strategy, introduced last year, to address specific goals and circumstances, such as uneven expense and income flows, or...
Pension Deductions Creates Online DB Calculator
The company believes the new tool will reduce wait time for advisers, who will usually contact actuaries to estimate defined benefit (DB) plan contribution requests when clients explore...