How advisors can avoid excessive fees lawsuits and become better fiduciaries at the same time
As we can see from the news excessive fee lawsuits are not going away. It makes a lot of sense that it continues to happen because people smell money. The...Read More
Compare Your Fees to Other Advisors in Your Area Using Fee Benchmark Hidden Tool
Looking for opportunities to create best proposals for your prospect may be tough in terms of pricing, and many people are interested if there is a way to look for other advisors’ fees in their area.
Case Study: Shining a Light on Revenue Sharing
The Ask It’s practically the norm for the fees on many 401(k) plans to be anything but straightforward. Indirect compensation and revenue sharing are some of the biggest culprits in...Read More
Case Study: Diversifying 401(k) Plans as a Great Prospecting Opportunity
The Ask: Creating a great proposal that will increase interest from your prospects should be ideal not only in terms of cost-efficiency but also in terms of diversification. While cost-efficiency...Read More
Case Study: Create the Ultimate Optimization Report for a Plan Sponsor
In order to create a winning proposal for a prospect, you need to make sure it includes all the best investment options. On the one hand, they should be optimized in terms of fees and performance, which might interest a plan sponsor, and finally they should correspond your provider platform requirements.
3 Updates on Current Fiduciary Lawsuits
We often talk about living in a “fiduciary era”, and new lawsuits are still a big part of it. Plan sponsors are facing lawsuits for excessive fees, poor performing funds,...Read More
Active vs ETFs: Do active funds give you what you pay for?
Most fund managers justify the higher fees associated with the fund by explaining that their skill will allow them to deliver better results than the index. We have taken a...Read More
Case Study: How to Find Retirement Plans with Specific Investment Names
By showing the sponsor better performing, more efficient lineups, he has won a lot of business. But many of his wins have come from clients that were with a particular provider. So he asked us how he could target sponsors that invest through that provider with high cost?
6 Things that Prospects and Clients Don’t Want to Hear from 401K Advisors
When it comes to communicating with your clients and prospects, it’s important to make sure you steer clear of certain things to make sure you start and maintain a good...Read More
Case Study: Selecting and Monitoring Target Date Funds
Target Date Funds or TDFs, became a big part of the retirement process. At this point, TDFs represent around 20% of all 401(k) plan assets and approximately 50% of all...Read More