When Wasteful Plan Fiduciaries Tell You That Savings You Propose Are Not “apples-to-apples”
When it comes to bringing a needed change to a retirement plan, there will usually be a fair amount of push-back from the third-party administrator or a plan’s record-keeper or current plan fiduciaries. Advisors using the 401kFiduciaryOptimizer quant analysis tool can analyze any 401(k) plan and visually see how much the plan can save...Read More
5 Articles for the Financial Advisor Weekend Reading List: December 8-9, 2018
Here are five suggested articles for financial advisors to read this weekend: 1. The Latest In Financial Advisor #FinTech (December 2018) – Welcome to the December 2018 issue of the Latest News in Financial Advisor #FinTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology...Read More
Here is How 401K Advisors will Benefit from Newly Proposed DOL Rules
Advisors could benefit from the proposed MEP regulations by being able to aggregate new and existing clients in the same geographic area into one common 401(k) plan. In October the DOL expanded the rules under which small businesses can aggregate participants into a common workplace retirement plan. This expansion reduces the restrictions around which business...Read More
Will Open MEPs Lead to More Opportunities for Financial Advisors?
President Trump with his Executive Order on Retirement plans expanded the horizons of better retirement to many people who before had no chance to retire comfortably and securely. It helps to close the gap between many employees working for small companies which do not have the ability to set up an internal retirement plan for...Read More
Overcoming Digital Marketing Barriers as a Financial Advisor
According to a recent article from financial-planning.com, financial advisors are falling behind in the digital era of marketing. The key issues where advisors need to improve are original content and overall engagement on digital platforms. The article goes on to suggest several solutions to the issues at hand: First of all, in order to achieve...Read More
How to Find and Use the Fee Benchmark Feature of 401kFiduciaryOptimizer
401kFiduciaryOptimizer has a hidden tool providing information on average advisory fee based on the plan assets and zip code of the plan the advisor is working on. It’s called Fee Benchmark and it can be found at the very bottom of the Edit Plan section: It shows the fees breakdown for different advisors parsed from...Read More
Post DOL Fiduciary Rule Regulatory Challenges
The DOL Fiduciary Rule is dead. All we know is that something will replace it, someday. Maybe. As this article from InvestmentNews points out, that leaves advisors in a state of regulatory uncertainty. And given the recent market volatility, the article mentions an important point: that if your IRA Rollover clients experience a suboptimal outcome...Read More
How Continuous is Continuous? Reasons Quarterly Review is Not Enough After Tibble vs Edison
As a fiduciary to an ERISA plan a few years ago you could have been forgiven to think that you are not responsible for decisions that were made long before you arrived on the scene. But you would be wrong. The Supreme Court ruling in Tibble vs Edison essentially stated that it is not enough...Read More
15 Useful Weekly Stats for Financial Advisors: Week of December 3, 2018
Matt Meyer and Michael Robinson are founders of The BluePrint Insurance Services. Their mission is to be the premier insurance partner for RIAs and comprehensive financial advisors. The BluePrint provides an operational insurance platform that allows our partners to provide the highest level of insurance access and support. We feature weekly update with permission: Matt...Read More
On Risk Tolerance and Broken Noses
From risk systems for advisors to algorithms used by robo-advisors, quant risk management has gone mainstream. These systems have gone from being housed on supercomputers at large institutions to cloud-based systems with calculations that cost almost nothing. However, as cheap risk modeling revolutionizes the way everyone invests, it is important to keep in mind one...Read More