Higher Education Plan Sponsors See More Demand for Participant Investment Help
A recent study on higher education plans from Voya found 43% of plan sponsors say motivating employees to save adequately and invest wisely are the top challenges in helping their employees prepare for retirement.
Defined Contribution Plans Today: Evolution, Innovations, Risk Management
Over the past few decades, defined contribution (DC) plans have evolved from a supplemental retirement and savings vehicle to the primary one for many companies in the US.
Participant Direct Connects You With Plan Members
Do you know that more than one-in-five participants have no interactions with their plan providers throughout a year? Based on the report published by J.D. Power, there are 29% of the plan participants who unaware of the access to professional financial advice related to their plan.It is truly astonishing to see such a disconnect between the participants and plan providers. According to the same report, approximately 40% of surveyed plan participants ranked their relationship with the plan providers to be either indifferent or dissatisfactory.
Improve Plan Sponsor Conversion & Increase Revenue with ParticipantDirect
How Does This Help You? How This Helps Participants? How This Helps Plan Sponsor? We always explain to our clients that Larkspur-RiXtrema apps have two goals: Help you win more...Read More
RIAs Beware! Small Mistakes Can Carry Expensive Fines For 401(k) Plan Sponsors
Fidelity is a Frequent 401(k) Lawsuit Defendant Oracle’s $12 million-mistake Market corrections are marketing opportunities Key Takeaways RiXtrema’s 401k Fiduciary Optimizer was created to help Financial Advisors inform plan sponsors...Read More
1 Thing Advisors Need To Do To Keep And Attract Plan Sponsors
Plan Sponsors are changing management styles of 401k plans Plan Sponsors know something is wrong Advisors need to show holistic involvement Advisors need to be stewards and educators Advisors need...Read More
Plan Ratings in Larkspur Executive
Average Employer Contributions / Participant Percent of Retirees: The Quintessence of Larkspur Executive: Overall Plan Rating The differences between benchmarks Benchmarking by the state is useful when prospecting in rural...Read More
Why are Participant / Employer Contributions important to a plan sponsor?
Sponsors may not be maximizing their 401k contributions, and Larkspur Executive’s tools can easily show this deficit. Your sponsor contacts are most likely considered highly compensated employees...Read More
More Lawsuits Mean Even More Problems for Stubborn Plan Sponsors
Excessive fee lawsuits now are a common occurrence throughout the financial industry. Every week you can hear about a major university or company pension plan being sued by the participants. However, the one thing that keeps on surprising us is the stubbornness of the plan sponsors to understand during the committee meetings that their duty of loyalty is to the employees, not to the company.
Easy Steps for Retirement Plan Sponsors to Minimize Their Liability
In a recent article by JD Supra, we learned that being a plan sponsor is quite a difficult task, because besides setting up a plan, one needs to watch it...Read More