Fiduciary Duties and Due Diligence
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Understanding what it means to be a retirement plan fiduciary is simultaneously very simple and quite complex. An attorney we know gave this very simple explanation about how plan fiduciaries should ...
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Are you a Plan Sponsor? Then it's your fiduciary duty to hire and oversee the industry service providers for your plan. Hopefully your current selection criteria is not limited to out-of-pocket costs ...
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Facts As a small business owner, I’m constantly looking for cost-effective ways to improve the benefits I offer my employees. My industry is a competitive one, and it’s important to me to have a ...
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Facts I sponsor a small 401(k) plan for my employees. Sometimes, I get confused about which service provider to go to for different plan-related questions. Time and efficiency are important to me ...
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Choosing a third-party administrator to manage your company's document design, compliance or government reporting services should be based on careful due diligence, rather than on the price of fees, ...
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Facts My company sponsors a 401(k) plan. With everything that has been in the news about retirement plan fiduciaries and some of the lawsuits against them, we are trying to decide whether or not we ...
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Facts With over 100 participants in our 401(k) plan in 2017, we have learned that our plan will now require an audit each plan year from an Independent Qualified Public Accountant (IQPA). This will ...
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Our first piece of advice for audited plan sponsors? Don't panic.
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Service providers are judged by by many factors and one of the most important is managing to zero service issues. And considering how important plan compliance is, issues with plan compliance via a ...
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Retirement plan compliance is a big deal to the IRS. After all, the tax deductions that both plan sponsors and participants receive each year for contributions to retirement plans surpass deductions ...
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