Are you personally liable for your retirement plan? Does your company retirement plan have a named fiduciary investment manager in the plan documents? If it doesn’t or if you don’t know then chances are that it’s you. Under Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the plan sponsor is the principal administrator and investment manager…
3(16), 3(21), or 3(38) Fiduciary – What’s the Difference? When it comes to your company retirement plan, there are several different fiduciaries with which your company can partner. But knowing the differences can be confusing at best and at worse can mean thinking you have reduced your liability when you really haven’t. Each one is…
4 Reasons Your Business Needs a Retirement Plan For most Americans, their company 401(k) is their primary means of saving for retirement. Despite this fact, less than half of all small businesses offer a retirement plan as an employee benefit[i]. There are two sides to this problem – first, employers do not understand all the…
Bi-Partisan Congressional Support for Retirement You may not have noticed but Congress is extremely interested in retirement right now. (No, not their own retirement!) While most headlines are about congressional debates on abortion and other hot issues, there are several bills, some with bi-partisan support, being discussed by the House and Senate. If passed, they…