NAPA’s mission is to be a leader in the evolution of the national retirement system to improve transparency, effectiveness, and governance in an effort to improve the retirement outcome for participants. We embrace new members who support NAPA’s core principles, which include:

1. The retirement industry is in transition and NAPA is a leader for positive change.
2. NAPA’s core purpose is to enhance retirement security in America.
3. NAPA members focus on providing high quality, professional advice to retirement plans and/or their participants.
4. NAPA members are committed to leading the transition to a more transparent, effective, professionally governed retirement system.
5. NAPA members may serve as either fiduciaries or non-fiduciaries, but are committed to clearly disclosing their fiduciary or non-fiduciary status to their ERISA retirement plan clients.
6. NAPA members pledge to comply with all requirements relating to retirement plans that are or will be required by the SEC, DOL, or any other governing agencies.
7. NAPA members pledge to maintain ethical standards in their representation of plan sponsor and participant clients and will strive to service them under a process that puts their clients’ interests first.