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Hidden Positives
A 3(38) fiduciary can benefit retirement plans in more ways than the obvious.

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How 3(38) Advising Profits Clients
Investment management turns up inefficiencies, takes on some risk, and more.
Equitable Retirement Vision Platform Includes Fiduciary Support for Plan Sponsors
The retirement platform is also open architecture, offering a choice from more than 16,000 mutual funds and CITs.
Practice Management: Areas of Success
A look at what worked particularly well in 2020 and that could keep propelling growth in 2021.
Vestwell Partners With Envestnet on 3(38) Services
The services will now be available to Vestwell advisers.
More DC Plans Are Using OCIOs
Sponsors are looking for institutional-quality investment lineups and to reduce their fiduciary risk.
Be Stronger in the Recovery
Todd Kading, president and co-founder of LeafHouse Financial, discusses the importance of flexibility and innovation when the tough times arrive.

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Investment Oversight Partners
How advisers benefit from asset management assistance

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The Path Forward
The various models advisers can adapt to grow their practice
Mesirow Offers Fiduciary Automation Technology Service
The Mesirow Financial Fiduciary Automation Service Technology provides broker-dealers the same automation and compliance engine that Mesirow uses to service its own 3(21) and 3(38) fiduciary service clients.

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Advisers’ Future Trajectory
Firms confront a convergence of retirement plan and wealth consulting

Clear Ground Rules Essential With 3(38) Fiduciary Clients
Experts share strategies for helping advisers taking on 3(38) fiduciary clients understand how they can set up the right processes and procedures—up front—for dealing with client concerns and questions about the investment menu.

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Brass Tacks
Serving as a 3(38) fiduciary enables an adviser to focus more on plan outcomes

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Forward Focus
How offering 3(38) fiduciary services can help advisers declutter the investment conversation
UBS Creates Program to Help Advisers Serve Small Plans
Retirement Plan Manager is aimed at helping advisers serve plans with less than $5 million in assets.
Two-Thirds of DC Consultants Charge Fixed Dollar Fees
This is down from three-quarters last year, a PIMCO survey found
Par Excellence
Celebrating the 2018 PLANSPONSOR Retirement Plan Adviser of the Year finalists and winners
DISRUPTION: 3(38) Market Leader CAPTRUST Talks Growth Trends
“If the whole DC plan advisory industry could have a do-over from say, 20 years ago, I think there would probably be much more of an emphasis from a lot of different firms on the 3(38) arrangement,” says CAPTRUST CEO Fielding Miller; in an exclusive interview, he describes in detail the firm's success building scale in the 3(38) fiduciary advice market.
