How to Create Tremendous Savings For Plan Participants Without Reducing Your Fees
ERISA based litigation is exploding. Targets of litigation include both large and medium sized plans. Legal challenges against Anthem, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, International Paper, MassMutual & Ameriprise are only some...Read More
Your 1 minute case study on 401K Retirement Plans: Crash Testing a 401(k) Plan
In today’s 1-minute case study, we’re going to take a look at how we can “crash test” a retirement plan menu using the Portfolio Crash Test tool. Users of our...Read More
Top 5 Larkspur-Rixtrema Blog Posts for September 2018
Here are the most popular blog posts for the month of September 2018 from the Larkspur-Rixtrema team. Be sure to catch up on this month’s top articles: 5. How to...Read More
How to Become an Expert on 404c Safe Harbor For Your Plan Sponsor Clients
Do You Really Qualify For 404(c) Safe Harbor From Liability? Summary: Under ERISA plan sponsors or advisors who exercise discretionary authority are fiduciaries with significant liability in case of fiduciary duty...Read More
5 Ways Larkspur-Rixtrema tools will help you become a better fiduciary
Here are a few quick facts on how Larkpur-Rixtrema tools will help you become a better fiduciary because: 1. Larkspur-RiXtrema tools will help you get a better understanding of the...Read More
6 Best Practices For Reaching a Busy Plan Sponsor
We at Larkspur-RiXtrema know how difficult it can be to keep up in the retirement plan space. There are so many wasteful plans out there, and it can seem easy to reach...Read More
Advisors concerned about consolidation among record keepers in the 401K business
InvestmentNews recently reported on how the consolidation of record-keepers could be a bad omen for 401(k) plans. Over the years, many record-keepers have been sold or merged together with other...Read More
Your 1 minute case study on 401K Retirement Plans: Maximizing Plan Performance
For this week’s Larkspur-RiXtrema case study, we’re going to take a look at the Summary report of a random plan and we’ll try to optimize it in terms of performance,...Read More
Why 401k plan fee benchmarking should be important to every Plan Fiduciary
Financial Advisors and 401(k) Plan Fiduciaries have been long obligated to explain or justify their fees, based on the scope of their services, the quality and the value they deliver...Read More
Your 1 minute case study on 401K Retirement Plans: Improving 404(c) Diversification
For this week’s Larkspur-RiXtrema case study, we’re going to take a look at a plan’s investment menu and how we can improve on it’s diversification to satisfy 404(c) requirements. By...Read More