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Cybersecurity poses strain between plan sponsors, record keepers
Vendors reluctant to provide details on cyberdefenses.
401(k) managed accounts becoming more diverse
Empower's new product lets advisers select the underlying investments.
Investor confusion about target-date funds is alarming
Survey highlights the level of misunderstanding, which could lead to disappointed plan participants and suboptimal behavior.
Here’s how the 401(k) world will evolve over the next three years
Retirement industry stakeholders of all stripes are set to undergo big changes.
Are 401(k) adviser aggregators the new ‘wirehouses’ for elite retirement plan advisers?
Some aggregator firms offer the support, tools, technology and built-in succession plans associated with the traditional wirehouse model.
Retirement plan adviser sales mostly for small players
Purchases largely involve books of plan business from non-specialists.
More retirement plan participant data, please
Advisers seek detailed client info to compete more effectively.
When skewed super-OSJ priorities raise red flags for retirement plan advisers
If a super-OSJ switches broker-dealers, overhauls its business model or ends up being acquired, that could be disruptive for the advisers that work with it.
Retirement plan advisers need to start planning for their own succession
Many expect to sell their business to fund retirement, yet aren't preparing properly to do so
Thank Richard Thaler for that bigger nest egg
How the Nobel Prize-winner's theories have boosted participation in retirement plans.
Pooled employer plans set to dominate small 401(k) market
Market forces are in place for the so-called pooled employer plan (PEP for short)…
Small-market retirement plan advisers face big-time challenges
Once upon a time, defined contribution plans seemed to be “set it and forget it” tools for plan…
How retirement plan advisers can help clients with compliance
Advisers who don't assist with compliance are at risk of losing clients.
Retirement plan advisers should keep current clients happy to get new ones: MassMutual study
Survey shows that 58% of plan sponsors found their adviser through a referral.
Former Fidelity COO Reynolds aims to oust former employer from top
Robert Reynolds, who built the industry's biggest 401(k) business while at Fidelity Investments, is seeking a reprise
LPL to buy National Retirement Partners
LPL Investment Holdings Inc. is acquiring National Retirement Partners, a San Juan Capistrano, Calif.-based broker-dealer that specializes in retirement plans
Plan sponsors warm to automatic features as rule changes await
Automatic features are gaining momentum in the 401(k) arena, according to financial advisers.
