Recent Study Shows 401k Participants Aren’t Sure of Their Own Portfolio Allocations
In a recent article by PlanSponsor.com, they referenced a survey by Legg Mason that reports that many 401k participants are in the dark of their own portfolio allocations. According to...Read More
Ways to help 401k participants understand the risk of their portfolios
One of the most obvious ways to look at the risk of portfolio is by checking its standard deviation. Standard deviation is a statistical measurement that sheds light on historical...Read More
What Can You Do As a Retirement Plan Advisor to Help Plan Sponsors?
According to Fidelity’s most recent plan sponsor attitude’s survey, we know that 92% of plan sponsors do use a plan advisor. It’s also been shown time after time, that having...Read More
What Fiduciaries to a Retirement Plan Need to do for the Best Plan Design
Advisors who work with plan sponsors should always be focused on creating value when designing a retirement plan to benefit plan participants. The greatest benefit of having a retirement plan...Read More
How can Larkspur-Rixtrema’s Plan Monitor help plan advisors become better fiduciaries?
Plan Monitor, which is part of the 401k Fiduciary Optimizer, would provide the advisor with the dashboard to keep track of the health of their existing clients’ retirement plans by...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
Reasons Why 401k Participants are Dealing with Financial Stress
In a recent plan participant survey by OneAmerica, the results are clear that many participants are having financial stress, and not all of it has to do with saving for...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
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
What the Trump Executive Order on Retirement Means for Advisors and Plan Sponsors
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 their workforce.