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Is Your Advisory Business Market-Ready?
There are many succession options for retirement plan advisers planning for their own futures, but whatever route an owner may take, advanced planning will improve the process.
2019 RPAY – Atlanta Retirement Partners
Atlanta Retirement Partners (ARP), founded in 2013 in Georgia’s capital, strives to be the go-to firm for clients who value participant education. In fact, most of ARP’s new...
2019 RPAY – The Beacon Group at Morgan Stanley
If you ask advisers in The Beacon Group at Morgan Stanley, the biggest retirement challenge facing individuals is “staring down age 60-plus” and realizing they have not saved...
2019 RPAY – Channel Financial
The advisers at Channel Financial in Golden Valley, Minnesota, believe the retirement industry needs to be more aware of how human beings make decisions in a “noisy world.”“We...
2019 RPAY – D’Aiutolo, Malcolm & Associates Investment Consulting Group at UBS Financial Services Inc.
The D’Aiutolo Malcolm & Associates Investment Consulting Group, in Rochester, New York, has a motto in the office: “Family first.” Not only does the internal team feel like...
2019 RPAY – LHD Retirement of LPL Financial
Over the past 12 months, LHD Retirement, in Indianapolis, has been on a mission to help non-savers address the financial concerns of today that keep them from saving...
2019 RPAY – StoneStreet Equity, LLC
The team at StoneStreet Equity, in White Plains, New York, is driven by its pride in helping participants who have a diversity of job types, ages, backgrounds and...
2019 RPAY – Cafaro Greenleaf
“Cafaro Greenleaf is constantly evolving our comprehensive service model to reflect where the industry is going, not where it is today,” says Jamie Greenleaf. “As advisers, our role...
2019 RPAY – Chepenik Financial
Chepenik Financial in Orlando, Florida, was founded in 1973 by Barney Chepenik as a boutique firm selling life and health insurance. In 1999, when his son, Jason, joined...
2019 RPAY – Oswald Financial, Inc.
Oswald Financial, in Cleveland, was founded in 1999, when there were virtually no retirement plan specialists. “From the beginning, and throughout the growth of our practice, the focus...
2019 RPAY – Plante Moran Financial Advisors
Plante Moran Financial Services’ culture and philosophy is ultimately rooted in helping participants retire successfully: “We care about our clients. We care about our work. We care about...
2019 RPAY – The Parks Group at Graystone Consulting, Morgan Stanley
Tom Parks, founder of The Parks Group at Graystone Consulting in Milwaukee, says he became motivated to enter the retirement planning industry when he witnessed his parents work...
2019 RPAY – Bukaty Companies Financial Services
To improve participants’ retirement readiness, Bukaty Companies Financial Services, in Overland Park, Kansas, launched its own financial wellness program last year.“What makes our program unique is not our...
2019 RPAY – Sentinel Pension Advisors Inc., Sentinel Benefits & Financial Group
Sentinel Pension Advisors, headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, has evolved into a “participant-focused fiduciary,” notes Julie Doran Stewart, senior vice president, retirement plan advisory services. “Our ultimate goal is...
2019 RPAY – Dan Peluse
“Retirement and financial goals are moving targets, which means my role is to provide new ideas and flexible guidance,” says Dan Peluse, director of retirement plan services, at...
2019 RPAY – James Lyday
James Lyday spent the first two decades of his retirement industry career working for several of the largest service providers. His varied roles across the provider spectrum showed...
2019 RPAY – Ellen Lander
Ellen Lander, a principal and founder of Renaissance Benefit Advisors Group (RBA) in New York City, has dedicated her entire career to working with qualified retirement plan sponsors...
SEC No-Action Letter Offers Guidance for Processing Rollover Checks
Banc West Investment Services asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to clarify its stance on the potential conflict between FINRA suitability determinations called for by rollover decisions and,...
New Mortality Tables Issued for 2020 DB Plan Calculations
The IRS has issued Notice 2019-26, which specifies updated mortality improvement rates and static mortality tables, as well as a modified unisex version of the mortality tables, to...
Gig Workers Report Being More Involved in Their Finances
Although only 56% of independent workers are actively saving for retirement, they are just as likely as traditional workers to feel they are financially prepared for retirement, a...